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London Based Biotech Firm Utilizes Bacteria to Dye Textiles
A glimpse into a multi-disciplinary design agency, Faber Futures, led by Natsai Audrey Chieza. The forward thinking firm is suggesting new ways of dyeing textiles for a greener textile industry.
Published on March 22, 2021
London Based Biotech Firm Utilizes Bacteria to Dye Textiles
A glimpse into a multi-disciplinary design agency, Faber Futures, led by Natsai Audrey Chieza.
Faber Futures
Faber Futures is a London based multidisciplinary design agency that fuses science, technology, nature, design, and society to create revolutionary and forward thinking products and materials.
Among many of their ingenious endeavors is Project Coelicolor (Index Award 2019 Winner).
This project is in collaboration with Professor John Ward of the Department of Biochemical Engineering, University College London.
The founder of Faber Futures, Natsai Audrey Chieza, was introduced to Streptomyces coelicolor (bacteria),which was utilized in Professor John Ward’s lab for a research regarding antibiotics. However, bio-designer Chieza was intrigued by its ability to produce a pigment and saw the potential of transferring this quality to the textile industry.
The bacteria attaches to these fibers and produces a pigment without the use of chemicals and with much lower water(up to 500 times) consumption than the conventional textile dyeing mechanisms.
What is Streptomyces coelicolor ?
Streptomyces coelicolor is a soil-dwelling organism. Most commonly known to be used to produce antibiotics.
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinobacteria
How does Streptomyces coelicolor produce the dye ?
When Streptomyces coelicolor is brought in contact with protein fibers. Meaning the bacteria is allowed to grow on to the textile, the bacteria attaches to these fibers and produces a pigment without the use of chemicals and with much lower water (up to 500 times) consumption than the conventional textile dyeing mechanisms.
What colors does it produce ?
As stated, the colors of the bacteria are blue, however, can be altered in the lab to produce the colors of red, pink, or purple.
What does this mean for the textile industry ?
The fashion and textile industry is lively and brave industry, however, just as wasteful and harmfully impacting and depleting our scarce resources on Earth.
On the other hand, the recent fusions among biotech, science, technology, and fashion industry are producing ingenious and green solutions that may revolutionize how we make and produce our garments in the future for a greener world.
Faber futures’ project, Project Coelicolor, is not a one-day experiment or exploration, the project’s journey started back in 2011 and it is continuously evolving and developing to this day. Faber Futures led by Natsai Audrey Chieza offers a revolutionary solution to how we dye our products alongside other promising biotech firms.
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