From: =?Windows-1252?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:16:05 -0500
Subject: [Puptcrit] EXPerimental: Kombucha Leather


http://creaturistelab.blogspot.com/2008/02/kombucha-leather.html

I dried a thin Kombucha scoby (the cellulose disk produced by the bacterial culture in Kombucha), and it turned into a leather-like thing.
I read about it somewhere when I was looking for kombucha recipes, and decided to give it a try.
Looks and feels like the thinnest leather I've ever seen, but also like a fallen automn leaf...
Very inspiring!

As kombucha gets colored by the ingredients used in its preparation, I'm guessing it might also  take dyes when dried...
For making durable wings, I think it would need an armature, maybe thin wire, as is the tradition in Fairy Art Doll making.

For the curious, the blog post linked above contains a picture of a dried Scoby, more info, and a link to more info about Kombucha, a health drink you brew at home quite easily.

I might use this as a closer-to-scale leather to make accessories in my short puppet film.
So far, I have a puppet on the way, which has promising snake-like movements, thanks to stretch fabric and sand.
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