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Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself

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Re: Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself

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Post by Qem »

dustfinger wrote: post #8

I wonder if there is a health hazard wearing this due to breathing in spores or toxins released into the air? Or perhaps there is a risk that the wearer will absorb harmful chemicals secreted by the mycelium via contact with the wearer's skin? Very interesting none the less. I have imagined humans making living clothes for a long time, so it is nice to see that idea materialize.

> Or perhaps there is a risk that the wearer will absorb harmful chemicals secreted by the mycelium via contact with the wearer's skin?

Or just getting a bad itch.

Re: Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself

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Post by AlanYx »

inigyou wrote: post #23
Forgeties79 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow you weren’t kidding that’s a beautiful color

You can buy this color for 3€/meter at any weekend fabric market.

You could, but getting it from pigments in a chitinous matrix produced by genetically engineered brewer's yeast is just a little bit cooler.

Re: Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself

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Post by dylan604 »

bastawhiz wrote: post #25
andai wrote: post #15

Could they make a house out of this?

It doesn't seem to have the rigidity to be structurally sound for construction.

my tent material doesn't have rigidity to it either. if we change out the word "house", it could be an interesting material to play with for other types of shelter. it's supposed to be hydrophobic, but how hydrophobic? a light spritz or spilled drink or holds up in the rain?

Re: Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself

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Post by pessimizer »

AlanYx wrote: post #32
inigyou wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can buy this color for 3€/meter at any weekend fabric market.

You could, but getting it from pigments in a chitinous matrix produced by genetically engineered brewer's yeast is just a little bit cooler.

I think they're saying that's exactly what you're buying for 3€/yd.

Re: Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

dustfinger wrote: post #8

I wonder if there is a health hazard wearing this due to breathing in spores or toxins released into the air? Or perhaps there is a risk that the wearer will absorb harmful chemicals secreted by the mycelium via contact with the wearer's skin? Very interesting none the less. I have imagined humans making living clothes for a long time, so it is nice to see that idea materialize.

Some people are very allergic to mushrooms. I wonder if that would extend to this.

But it's pretty cool.

Re: Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself

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Post by [deleted] »

kibwen wrote: post #13
josefritzishere wrote: post #3

Is there an adjective for something that's nifty but also gross?

I'm not sure it's any more objectively gross than normal textile materials. Imagine you lived in a hairless, furless world where nothing like wool was a thing, and then suddenly we discovered a weird fluffy mammal that extruded long fibers out of its flesh; the people of that world might call that gross, we'd just call it ordinary.

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