Neato! Very interesting/potentially creepy. 🤪
Haha, yeah it would be a little weird to wake up to clothes that repaired themselves but it would also be cool as as hell and the easiest fix ever
The article does a good job pointing out the main issue with fungal clothing, it will grow beyond self-repair. Perhaps a halfway point like a patch that grows into tears, and deactivated once ready with heat from an iron, like how glue-based clothing patches are used now.
But first, the team will need to make the leather stronger and determine how to control the chlamydospores’ growth. Otherwise, he says, someone could “walk out in the rain, and then all of a sudden find that [their] jacket is growing, or perhaps [has] mushrooms popping out of it.
I mean if it’s edible I’d be stoked. I never cared for wearing much leather other than gloves but I would be the first in line to buy some shroom fleather, especially if it was magical. Imagine how fucking trippy that shit would be.
