Haven’t looked too deeply at it, but from what I understand, it isn’t durable enough for things like furniture. It’s good enough for hand bags, accessories, and decorative features, but it wears out too quick for anything that sees a lot of friction like seats, clothes, or arm rests.
That being said, we are in the infancy of using mycelium as material, and what we’ve made so far is pretty damn cool. Expect a lot more things to be made of mushrooms as the technology develops.
I’m not convinced raising a whole living being that eats plants, and harvesting its skin is that much more energy efficient than just using a plant fibre
The only mass scaled alternative with an identical look and feel. There are plenty of alternatives if you don’t need it to look like leather. Like the infinite variety of fabrics.
The only mass scaled alternative is synthetics made from oil.
Until a sustainable alternative reaches scale. This is lip service for vegans.
Other new materials can and will be scaled up, such as hemp based cloth, mycelium based leather etc.
And as someone who prefers fabric seats anyway…There are fabric seats too!
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…Cows??
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Haha, yeah I was just joking around. But there are also organic fibers (not that they’re probably used for cars).
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Mushroom leather sounds dope
It’s being used in really high end handbags and such already. It can be made to be surprisingly high-end.
Haven’t looked too deeply at it, but from what I understand, it isn’t durable enough for things like furniture. It’s good enough for hand bags, accessories, and decorative features, but it wears out too quick for anything that sees a lot of friction like seats, clothes, or arm rests.
That being said, we are in the infancy of using mycelium as material, and what we’ve made so far is pretty damn cool. Expect a lot more things to be made of mushrooms as the technology develops.
I’m not convinced raising a whole living being that eats plants, and harvesting its skin is that much more energy efficient than just using a plant fibre
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It gets to live on a happy farm in the sky?
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The only mass scaled alternative with an identical look and feel. There are plenty of alternatives if you don’t need it to look like leather. Like the infinite variety of fabrics.
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