She bested me with science...

[the_future_modernes]

German designer Anke Domaske and her fashions made from milk | euromaxx

These Women Are Wearing Clothes Made of Real Milk

I'm having a hard time believing this, but these women are wearing clothes actually made with real milk. Yes, the liquid white stuff. The milk fabric was created by 28-yo German biologist and fashion designer Anke Domaske.

Domaske and her team have found a way to turn sour milk into a environment friendly yarn in a very easy and clean way. They eliminate the liquid from it, extracting a protein found that solidifies and then is ground into the threads that form the fabric. Domaske finds the whole thing fascinating, do I:MORE

via oak monster who has the link to the best tshirt EVAR for this story!

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[willow]

I'm reminded of The Filter Bubble; which I'm reading right now. And one of the arguments being that when people keep having their ideas and ideology reflected back at them by what the now automated/code programed gatekeepers think they want to see, then you don't have any more happy cross pollination ideas like fashion plus science, etc.

Imagine if personalization had reached such a point that the things this designer wanted to use that were coded, kept insisting she wanted EITHER fashion or sceince related information and contacts coming back at her and not both.

To me, in this age of personalization that's (at least in the US) very,very binary gender focused, fashion AND science would have confused the eff out of the current gatekeeprs since they keep wanting fashion to be female and science to be liberal male.

Meanwhile, I'm personally excited that she's thought of a way to remove an aspect of food waste; all that milk that doesn't get bought by it's 'sell by date' that gets thrown out; doesn't have to be anymore. It can be repurposed. It's not the end of factory farming, but it's a definite start to something.

[the_future_modernes]

And one of the arguments being that when people keep having their ideas and ideology reflected back at them by what the now automated/code programed gatekeepers think they want to see, then you don't have any more happy cross pollination ideas like fashion plus science, etc.

GOD yes.

[nagasvoice]

I'm not hugely surprised that this is possible.
However, I suspect a lot of stale milk gets reused in other products, though I don't have links for you, and I don't know if the usual industrial collectors could use soured milk. The proteins in it are valuable, even if they're just dried out and tossed in animal feed.
That term "Victorian milk paint" is, actually, literal. It's similar to using the proteins from eggs for tempera painting.