Today's weird science = tomorrow's fibre innovation?
What do several bathtubs, a pinch of yeast, a pinch of bacteria and several cups of sweetened green tea give you? You say “Yuck!”, but Suzanne Lee, a senior research fellow at the School of Fashion and Textiles in London, England, said “Eureka!” and then she went to work experimentally growing, drying and then felting together sheets of bacterial fabric to make an entire wardrobe. My point here is that a mind that’s forgotten how to play cannot come up with stuff like this. What’s the value in a wardrobe grown from bacterial culture, you ask? One never knows — today’s wacky science experiments may lead to tomorrow’s game changing textile innovation. Personally, I’d love to know what process brought Ms. Lee to this slimy idea — it could be very enlightening!
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