This is just too weird:
Australian researchers are making dresses from fermented fabric, using bacteria to grow slimy dresses from wine and beer.
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To ferment fabrics, Mr Cass and his colleagues deliberately let vats of wine go off to produce cellulose.
To get the shape of a dress, they lift the layers of slimy cellulose off and lay them over an inflatable doll.
After each dress has been completed, they deflate the doll and remove it, leaving the dress intact.
“It’s the bacteria that are weaving all these fibres together,” Mr Cass said.
“We’re not using any machines, sewing machines and so forth.”
Mr Cass says other alcoholic drinks can be used to ferment fabrics.
“As long as we have alcohol, these bacteria will do their job,” he says.
One of the dresses has a clear panel made from beer.
Not wierd at all, but rather pleasingly suggestive of possible de-robing binges. Mmmmm.
What’s that, Groucho?
But is it as disgusting as silkworm spit?
Apparently, researchers tell the doll that her bum looks big in the dress.
Judging from the photo, they’re also working on cosmetics made from Baileys.
Still, she’d probably look quite the thing through googles made from beer.
Or after a couple of years of detention on Nauru
“After each dress has been completed, they deflate the doll …”
Are the dolls re-inflated manually or by machine?
Enemy Combatant, I went to great trouble on your behalf and rang a friend, and he said to tell you to look for the instructions, there in the box. (Not too sure how to take that)
meh
already invented years ago
at b&s balls
and ag schoolies
don’t these people know anything?
Dopey women will wear anything including the ‘morning after’ look.
And they dress to impress each other, which says it all really.
Philip, you’re observa, dude.
It’s probably just that he’s married with a daughter ot two Anna. Having sisters helps too.
oops… or two
“Ready to drink wear”.
Nah, I say forget it.
The flax man, he provides de better product.
Not a big waster of water, like mr cotton.
Can be used to make the paper,too.
Best still, you don’t get to look like a nori roll after a big night out on the wine and de beer like in the picture. And thanks Anna, the simple prob. seems solved at our end.
I knew that “dress” reminded me of something!
Anyone seen the *very odd* Canadian indie movie “The Saddest Music in the World”?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366996/
Isabella Rossellini plays Lady Port-Huntley, a beer Baroness, who lost her legs. An admirer presents her with beer filled prosthetics.
<img src="http://www.theplaza.ca/moview/Pics/Films/2004/Saddest_Music_in_the_World/poster.jpg"
That wouldn’t happen to be a Guy Maddin film, by any chance, now would it?
That dude is quite a piece of work. I heard once that he has his scripts translated into Finnish by one party, and then re-translated back to English by a second party, so that the language will become distorted from the working draft of the original…
So why am I not surprised by legs made of beer…
Yep, it is.