UK Develops Sustainable Fabrics - Tea Fabrics

British Fashion

In collaboration with fiber scientists, we developed a garment that is both leather and fabric with light weight.

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And even shoes, the British call it "tea shirt".

Because it is made from the favorite tea beverage of the British people.

Scientists and British central Saint Martin Art

The new fabric - tea shirt developed by the college is believed to be highly practical. It can also be processed, dyed and melted to produce another garment, which is the charm of the tea shirt.

Researchers believe that this innovative and sustainable fabric will increasingly become the direction of the development of the textile industry.

Traditional raw materials such as cotton, wool and leather are subject to increasingly high prices and will be increasingly limited in use.

The tea shirts developed by them are made of waste green tea, sugar and other nutrients, which are specially mixed.

The green tea mixture can stimulate the growth of bacteria of the genus Acetobacter so as to grow cellulose filaments.

After wearing it for two weeks, the clothes become more and more firm due to the effect of cellulose.

During this period, they added a large amount of bacteria into the cellulose tea juice, so that they could be attached to the surface of the clothes.

After drying, the tea shirt clothing is pparent, similar to pparent papyrus.

Professor Paul Freeman, a molecular biologist at Imperial College in London, said: "bacteria naturally grow cellulose fibers, which are linked into pieces and become fabrics.

Of course, the bacteria often cause uneven surface.

So scientists can think of ways to make them durable and smooth.

This kind of clothing is as strong as leather after drying, and even it can't be damaged by hand tearing.

However, as of today, people have to face some challenges if they want to wear such clothes to the streets, for example, the smell of this kind of clothes is too strong because of the continuous breeding of bacteria.

To overcome this problem, we still need to study. Of course, we need to set standards for large-scale production.