{"id":9361,"date":"2023-02-14T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.munichfabricstart.com\/the-new-world-of-colours-sustainable-innovations\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:14:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:14:43","slug":"the-new-world-of-colours-sustainable-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munichfabricstart.com\/en\/the-new-world-of-colours-sustainable-innovations\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NEW WORLD OF colours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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MycoColors by Birke Weber and Friederike Hoberg<\/h2>\n

Dyes play a major role in our daily lives \u2013 in the clothes we wear, the cosmetics we use or the food we eat. Most of the dyes we use are of synthetic origin, which poses potential health risks \u2013 both in the manufacturing process and in the dyeing process or use. In addition, dyes and pigments in industrial wastewater are not infrequently released into the environment, where they remain and damage ecosystems.<\/p>\n

MycoColors, a project by designer Birke Weber and biochemist Friederike Hoberg, addresses precisely this problem. The two are researching the potential of alternative dyes \u2013 specifically: from fungi. With MycoColors<\/a>, they want to develop optimal growth conditions for colour-producing mycelium with the aim of creating a sustainable extraction of dyes and an innovative dyeing process and establishing fungal dyes in the textile and fashion industry. Because: fungi offer a lively, broad colour spectrum that runs through all the colours of the rainbow and is far from being exhausted<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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The advantages: The fungal mycelium from which the dyes are extracted grows within just a few days, cultivation takes place in inexpensive culture mediums and production is independent of weather and season. Furthermore, MycoColors works in a closed material cycle: resources such as water and nutrients can be recovered and reused, and by-products such as the biodegradable mycelium can either be returned to nature or upcycled \u2013 for example, by using it for paper production.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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\u00bbThe textile and fashion industry uses vast quantities of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, including synthetic dyes, for its ever-changing product range. But the end customers cannot trace everything that is hidden in a purchased T-shirt or carpet. A humane and environmentally friendly alternative made from fungi aims to revise this uncertainty, especially with regard to the colors in a purchased product.\u00ab<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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