Kingdom: Vegetabile.
//Description
“MYX consist of plant fibre and mushroom-mycelium. The material is grown into shape during a period of two to three weeks, where the mushroom mycelium grows together the plant fibres into a flexible and soft living textile. After two weeks, you can harvest the healthy Oyster mushrooms. The waste product can then be dried and used as a lightweight material, that is both organic, compostable and sustainable.
The mushroom mycelium stabilizes the construction by physically growing together the material behaving as a glue between the fibres. The MYX consists of waste – the mushroom organism comes from a commercial mushroom farm and the plant fibres is a leftover material from the textile industry, MYX is an optimized end-waste product with a nutritious food product during the growing cycle.” (Edvard, 2014)
Material Qualities
Kingdom Attributes
- Organic
- Natural
- Fredom of Shape
- Textured
- Honest
- Wrinkled
- Matte
Specific Material Attributes
- Aggressive
- Extravagant
- Uncomfortable
- Dense
- Bumpy
- Freform
- Covering
- Fluid
- Disgust
- Pleasant Surprise
Basic Ingredients
- Oyster Farmed Mycelium
- Plant filaments
Contact
Studio Jonas Edvard
T +45 29845273
info@jonasedvard.dk
www.jonasedvard.dk
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Images property of the material owners.
-Edvard, J., (2014) MYX. Retrieved from http://jonasedvard.dk/work/myx/