UK Develops Sustainable Fabrics - Tea Fabrics

According to the British telegraph, Britain Latest fashion The designer collaborate with the fiber scientist to develop a garment that is both leather and fabric with light weight. This fabric has been used for making shirts. Jacket , Women's wear And even shoes, the British call it "tea shirt". It is made from the tea drinks that are popular with the British.

The new type of fabric - tea shirt developed by the Royal College of London and the British central Saint Martin Institute of art and design 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. Green tea mixture stimulates the growth of Acetobacter spp. to produce 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 spanparent, similar to spanparent 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.