https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00275514.2020.1858686

“Fungal mycelial mats used as textile by indigenous people of North America”

My SciAm reading took me to this. It is an interesting thing.

buffy said:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00275514.2020.1858686

“Fungal mycelial mats used as textile by indigenous people of North America”

My SciAm reading took me to this. It is an interesting thing.

> textiles thought to be made from fungal mats … Although DNA sequencing failed to yield a taxonomic identification

I wish they could be more certain.

> One application for these mycofabrics is to replace real and synthetic leather

That’s unexpected. I wouldn’t have called leather a “textile”.

> a conifer tree with brown rot. Cracks that develop in the brown rotted wood are filled with mycelium that forms thick, large mats. Large mats that were removed from an old-growth tree

Constant thickness of a felt-like material with cross-branching forms in cracks in tree trunks.

Nice. Thanks, buffy.

I’ll be quite interested to read this. Thanks.