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M001 → Mycelium Skin
The barrier between our internal world and the world around us is our skin. It's how we touch and feel touched, and what we see in others. Skin is our biggest organ. Skin comes in all shapes, colors, and textures. The environment affects it. Skin is delicate and strong.
For Mycelium, the internal world is the soil, where it grows, and transforms old matter into energy for itself. When it eventually transforms all the energy underground, mycelium ventures upwards, to the exterior world.
In contact with air, mycelium seeks itself, creating a dense and pure network, a barrier between its internal world and the world we live in: the skin. Mycelium Skin, in short, MySkin.
Pure Mycelium Skin bag and top. One material.
Sculpted growth:
No stitch + No sew = No waste
We can grow 3D MySkin pieces and have control over the form, this allows for molded clothing, which grows into a specific shape like the bag above, this opens avenues for clothing that drapes the body differently than other leather replacements or textile.
There is no need for pattern cutting or sewing as the piece has grown into the final shape itself.
Initial trials:
Peeling off the layer of mycelium is used to retrieve what is commonly called “Mycelium Leather” / MySkin. Even though MySkin resembles leather in many ways, it’s not animal, but fungal skin, a material with unique properties.
Reishi Skin grown for 3 months
Reishi Skin grown through Beeswax mesh.