What is Mycelium Leather? Does it exist?

[Handstitched]

5 hours ago, SUP said:

This could be something different. 

Yup, 'leather'  crossed with ' vegan ' = " Leagan"  ...wha...?? lol 

11 hours ago, chuck123wapati said:

i just rendered three gallons of tallow from our Elk, it will be our soap.

Theres a UK  TV series called " Worst Jobs in History" hosted by Tony Robinson that shows how soap was made in the early days, animal  fat mixed with lye ,  quite fascinating . It didn't lather like modern soaps, but it did the job .  These days, soaps are made with so many chemicals with names I can't pronounce . 

HS 

[SUP]

@Handstitched or "Vegther"? "Vether"? So one needs to know "whether someone is talking about weather or vether"...

 

Mycelium leather - I wonder if anyone here has tried to make any. I read people make it at home.

Edited November 15, 2023 by SUP

[Burkhardt]

The vegans against using leather will then be associated with someone filing a 15,000 page lawsuit to save the trees.

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2 hours ago, Burkhardt said:

The vegans against using leather will then be associated with someone filing a 15,000 page lawsuit to save the trees.

Now theres a bit of irony. I wonder how much land has been cleared and how many trees had to be removed or destroyed  in the process to grow the fruit & vegies in the first place ,   and  to build the factories to process & package the fruit & vegies ?  

Shall I get the popcorn out?? ,  lol  

HS

[chrisash]

we are open to be called living in the past, if we don't open our minds to new products, We accept patent leather but close our minds on other modern inventions. Whilst "Leather" has been around for years, it has its place in history but is not the only material we can use. If people are only interested in working leather so be it, but others for many reasons look to use modern methods of making similar but not the same material. In England we had Luddites in the industrial revolution who objected to mechanisation, Some on here seem to have closed minds on modern alternatives, no one is insisting you use alternatives, just that they are there if you feel the urge to experiment, guess people feel the same about linin thread and modern poly threads

[SUP]

Considering the stuff that has been passing under the heading of 'vegan' leather, I'm not surprised people are skeptical. A bit of skepticism is good, especially when playing around with fungi. If that makes people who question, modern day 'Luddites' so be it.

This is similar to turkey 'bacon' and veggie 'burgers' - taste fine in their place but not as replacements; as other options? Certainly.

 

[chuck123wapati]

4 hours ago, chrisash said:

we are open to be called living in the past,                        no one is insisting you use alternatives

 

Luddite  that's funny. definition = oh no step back in line sheeple big business( those real insistent ones) cant make money without you, we need to make disposable man made crap and you need to buy it or we wont be rich and you wont be poor. Their products are always almost as good as the natural product they replace.

And that's bad why?  Every person on this forum is searching for knowledge on working leather that has been lost to our great world of modernization and science. We now live in a world full of plastic pollution, eat processed gmo foods that are total garbage and makes us sick while 66% of Americans take medicine daily when a  healthy diet is what they really need  and drink our water from even more plastic bottles because clean water in our homes is a thing of the "PAST" also. 

There is not a d*$n thing wrong with living the past IMO. I'll gladly take it over the future that is being set out for us right now.

Luddite here and proud of it!!!! i have nothing against mushrooms they are great sautéed with onions on a rare elk steak. makes good soup too.

[chuck123wapati]

12 hours ago, Handstitched said:

Yup, 'leather'  crossed with ' vegan ' = " Leagan"  ...wha...?? lol 

Theres a UK  TV series called " Worst Jobs in History" hosted by Tony Robinson that shows how soap was made in the early days, animal  fat mixed with lye ,  quite fascinating . It didn't lather like modern soaps, but it did the job .  These days, soaps are made with so many chemicals with names I can't pronounce . 

HS 

spoiler....  real soap is still made that way. 

[Littlef]

On 11/14/2023 at 7:47 AM, chuck123wapati said:

i just rendered three gallons of tallow from our Elk, it will be our soap.

wow, 3 gallons of Tallow would keep me stocked for black powder for a long long time.

[Handstitched]

1 hour ago, SUP said:

especially when playing around with fungi.

Fungi ? Whats his name ?  lol, sorry its late , almost my bed time. 

 

8 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said:

spoiler....  real soap is still made that way

Shhhhh...  just don't tell the vegans  

So love to try an Elk steak with mushrooms and onions on the barby , with a nice red wine 

HS