====== Biofabrics ======

For Biomaterial I again worked in a group with Laura & Natalia. We decided to work with the “Gelatine / Glycerine flexible“ receipt.\\
The receipt asked for:

1g Gelatin (powder)\\
50ml of 1% Glycerine\\
25ml Water (which we unfortunately for some reason forget to add)\\
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__Preparing the Bioplastic __ \\
We heated up the gelatin and the glycerine and stir until the gelatin completely dissolved.\\
I the meanwhile, we sprayed the petri dishes with a release spray which would help to remove the bioplastics from the petri dishes.

We added four different ingredient to see how our Biofabrics would behave with it.\\
We used:

Petri dish 1 - Original\\
Petri dish 2 - Food colour (1/2 teaspoon)\\
Petri dish 3 - Natural dye (1/2 teasapoon)\\
Petri dish 4 - Piece of virgin wool

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__From left to right:__ original, piece of virgin wool, food color (1/2 teaspoon), natural dye (1/2 teaspoon)

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We closed the Petri dishes.\\
After five days of drying the fabrics got very tough/ sticky but unfortunately were still a bit liquid. Maybe the drying process was too short, the water was missing or the gelatin proportion was to low.\\
But all ingredients/ material interact very well with it.

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