Someone explain to me how shirts can be made out of milk...

[Debbi801]

http://www.piscottacashmere.com/soybean%20cashmere.htm

Scroll a little ways down the page and you see this:

100% Milk Fiber Clothing
An extraordinary new yarn made from pure organic cow's milk



There was a blurb about this in Good Housekeeping. Apparently, the milk is freeze-dried and spun into yarn.

I'm not trying to be dense, but when you add water to freeze-dried coffee, it turns back into coffee. Wouldn't these shirts turn back into milk if they got wet? :shrug:

[kick-ass-bob]

1. I dunno, but I like the sheen of it

[Goldmund]

2. "Wouldn't these shirts turn back into milk if they got wet?"

:evilgrin:

[tk2kewl]

3. if they turn to milk when wet they'd be popular at wet t-shirt contests

[kenny blankenship]

4. You can make glue from milk

it's the protein chains or something. Probably some method of heating plus chemical treatment creates a long fiber that stays crunchy in ...
That doesn't melt when wet.

[mark11727]

5. Does it smell like CHEESE when it gets sweaty and funky...?

[bettyellen]

6. anything that can be solidified, can be pushed through a fiber extruder

which is a very tiny and expensive shower head type thingey usually made of platinum.
what come out are stands that are twisted into yarns, then woven or knit into fabric.

[SarahB]

8. Wow!

I never knew that. I take it with some of your posts, you either work of have worked in the fashion industry. Interesting stuff. :thumbsup:

[bettyellen]

12. my fabric science teacher was a hard ass. we actually had to burn swatches

and inhale them to identify what fiber it is during tests. oh soo healthy for us, huh. and hemp was not one of the answers, dammit.

[Kraklen]

7. There's a lot of protein in milk.

Albumin... casein...

Remove the water, fat, and sugar, and your left with a big solid mass of protein. I didn't know it could be spun into a fiber, but there you go, that must be what's going on. No, I wouldn't expect it to dissolve in water like dehydrated milk.

[Mutley]

9. So, is it edible?

:evilgrin:

[On the Road]

10. If Ice Cream is Allowed to Sit

in a hot, dry environment it can become rock hard. When I was a child, a boy in the neighborhood dropped an ice cream bar from the Good Humor man in the gutter. Years later, it was still sitting there. Kids treated it like the eighth wonder of the world.

[WeRQ4U]

11. Ice cream bars, like Chicken Nuggets have half lives of 2 billions years..

They're like Monoliths.

[mainegreen]

13. PLASTIC!!!

A form of plastic called casein plastic can be made from vinegar and milk. This was actually the first plastic discovered!