Finally, An Authentic 'Tea-Shirt'
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Coming soon to a store near you - A t-shirt made from 'tea' - And we are not talking something simply dyed with the leaves, but an entirely new material made from the world's favorite drink!
The amazing cloth is the result of a collaboration between Professor Freemont at London's Imperial College and fashion designer Suzanne Lee, who wished to invent a new green fabric for the fashion industry.
To manufacture the material, green tea, sugar and a number of nutrients are first mixed together to make a soup-like concoction. Bacteria are slowly added to this mixture over the course of few days. As it blends in, it helps create clumps of cellulose that rise to the surface. These are removed and spun into a fabric that is extremely lightweight but has a texture that resembles leather.
Suzanne who has used the fabric to make a range of clothes ranging from shirts to dresses and even shoes, is tweaking the manufacturing process a little more, after which she hopes to introduce it to the mainstream market.
Sources: telegraph.co.uk,vouchercodes.co.uk, mircrobeworld.org, inewide.com
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- joshover 14 yearsi hate this but i love tea exceptional with milk mmmmmmm
- Ms. Reneeover 14 yearsGood thinking sixth graders_ How do the clothes feel on your skin, right Emma? Clothing made from grass...hmmm... I say give it a go Emma. That can be your first invention!
- mcat99over 14 yearsthat is so cool. i make my own designs at home that i thought were crazy! ive been getting really good at designing. well back to the topic.... how delicate is that tea-shirt?
- Blue Hat Ianover 14 yearsI guess with a shirt like that it requires cold wash.I might buy one.
- austinover 14 yearsWOW! I was really amazed by the ''TEA-SHIRT''. I wonder how long it took them to make the shirt! I really want to by one!
- Emma over 14 yearsWell Mrs.Garcia if I made a new clothes line out of miteral I would make it out of mode grass. My company would go around asking for doanations of mode grass. It's recycled and it gets ride of unwanted grass.
- Emma over 14 yearsClothing out of soup made by green tea , sugar , an many more ingredents. Amzing how it resembles leather but is also very light wieght. I wonder how the clothing fells. You would think it feels sticky.
- Ms Reneeover 14 yearsA shirt made from cellulose??? Who would have thunk it? If you could make clothing out of anything what would you use? WHy?
- rockgirlover 14 yearsi would totaly buy the tea shirt
- julianover 14 yearscool