# 9. Textile Scaffold
## Research
I got back to one of my first inspirations, the Nornes, that were the weavers of destiny in Nordic Myths. They weave with organs human destiny and decide of peace and wars, they were respected witches.
In this week I fell like fighting back for witchy practices.
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## Mycelium
For the mycelium, we mixed it with the sculpting mix, by hand, wearing gloves. Then I poured the mix into my mold that I made few months ago with silicone. It’s a devil alien face. I had to leave the extremities opened. Then it is important to let it grow for about 4 days with not much light and the right temperature.
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## Crystals
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## Composite materials
For the composite materials I decided to make a sort of papier-maché material with pieces of fabric.
At the lab we have a “broyeur” that smashes textile pieces or plastics to make it into small ones. It is made from the “precious plastic” project.
It can also be an “extrateur” that would make a thread paste. It is important to not leave the fabrics too fast and not too much of it at once or it gets stuck.
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### Ingredients & Recipes
You just press the button on 2 and on 1 to go back at the end so that the rest of the fabric comes down.
Then it is good to put the fabric pieces back into the broyeur to make smaller pieces. The smaller the pieces are, like a pouder, the more it gets into a linear paste, the bigger the pieces are, the more it gets with “grumeaux”. Mix with water and white glue or flour into a box that is big enough for the frame. Put the mix on the frame that’s got a plastic net fixed on it, to filter the water. Then get it to dry on a surface, like a fabric and a piece of cardboard or wood.
I used linen that inspires me because of its sustainability and the locality of its origin. Most of the linen worldwide production is made in France, in Normandy. It is good not to mix materials in the mixer too much.
Prepare this recipe [^1] by collecting the ingredients necessary, to be found in the list below:
=== "ingredients"
* water
* white glue or flour
* linen fabric pieces
=== "tools"
* bigo plastic box
* frame with net
* broyeur
## Leather mold
Heat up the water at 80 degrees, put the leather into the water with bicarbonate untill the bubbles are out (leather absorbing the water).
WARNING: Be carefull to not leave the leather for too long otherwise it shrinks and burns.
Put the leather on a mold (that should have holes to leave air pass), malaxe it with your handsto give the shape.
Thiner leathers take the shape more easily.
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## Overview material research outcomes
_example from the documentation of [Loes Bogers](https://class.textile-academy.org/2020/loes.bogers/) TextileLab Amsterdam 2019-20_
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| [](../../../files/recipes/biofoam/) Biofoam | [](../../../files/recipes/biofoilextraflexible) Gelatin foil |[](../../../files/recipes/bioresin) Bioresin | [](../../../files/recipes/biosilicon) Biosilicone |
|[](../../../files/recipes/biorubber) Starch Rubber | [](../../../files/recipes/biolino) Biolinoleum | [](../../../files/recipes/alginatenet) Alginate net | [](../../../files/recipes/alginatefoil) Alginate foil |
| [](../../../files/recipes/alginatestring) Alginate string | [](../../../files/recipes/agarfoil) Agar foil | [](../../../files/recipes/agarcomposite) Bio composite | [](../../../files/recipes/recycledPLA)Reused PLA |
## Documenting and comparing experiments
##### TEST SERIE BIO-PLASTIC
| _Material pic_ | _Material name_ | _polymer_ | _plastifier_ | _filler_ | _emulsifier_ |
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| { width=100 } | bio-rainbow | biokelp powder 12 gr | glycerol 100 ml | rainbow dust 1 kg | green soap a drop |
| { width=100 } | bio-rainbow | biokelp powder 12 gr | glycerol 100 ml | rainbow dust 1 kg | green soap a drop |
| { width=100 } | bio-rainbow | biokelp powder 12 gr | glycerol 100 ml | rainbow dust 1 kg | green soap a drop |
| { width=100 } | bio-rainbow | biokelp powder 12 gr | glycerol 100 ml | rainbow dust 1 kg | green soap a drop |
###### RESULTS
_Two ways of showcasing and comparing results with images below_
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On the left an image of a sample made by xxx with xxx. The dye is more xxx.
On the right, an image of a sample made by xxx with xxx and xxx. Here the dye is more xxx.
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## _Recipes_
[^1]: recipe: salmon skin fish-leather
[^2]: recipe: red wine bacterial-leather
[^3]: recipe: alginate algi-leather
[^4]: recipe: alginate waterproof bio-plastic