Kingdom: Animale.
//Description
Porcaria
Gabriela Machado da Silva Lima (Brazil), Liping Ren (China), Luisa Hiromi Yatsu Simon (Brazil), Zheng Manlin (China).
The material is developed to change pigskin’s properties and appearance, aiming to eliminate people’s prejudice against it.
To begin is necessary to remove the fat of the skin and boil it until it’s entirely “clean” and soft. Then process the skin with a mixer or a blender while it’s still hot until it becomes a homogeneous liquid mass. By its nature, the pigskin by itself is elastic enough to make a plastic-like material. Nevertheless, the designers realized when adding the glycerin, as the plasticizer element, how the material becomes more flexible and harder to break. Adding pigments makes the material similar to synthetic silicones.
Material Qualities
Kingdom Attributes
- Irregular
- Light
- Freedom of shape
- Fibrous
- Warm
- Organic
- Natural Color in Volume
Specific Material Attributes
- Velvety
- Soft
- Fibrous
- Texturized
- Irregular
- Rough
Basic Ingredients
- Mycelium filamentous cells (hyphae).
- Flour
- Water
- Rubbing Alcohol
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