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Grow your own clothes

Suzanne Lee · TED

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About

Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make clothing. The process is fascinating, the results are beautiful (though there's still one minor drawback ...) and the potential is simply stunning.

The talk

  1. Grow your own clothes 7 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2011
Speaker
Suzanne Lee
Year
2011
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Engineering, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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