Which bacteria are easy to grow and suitable for creating patterns on a fabric?

[iris kloppenburg]

Hi There!

I'm an designer who's working in the field of material design.

At the moment I'm working on a project creating patterns on fabrics created by living organisms.

Because I'm not into the BIO field (yet) I look for some advice which bacteria I can use to create patterns with.

See the picture as an example of a fabric which I created by burying the fabric into the ground. So I don't know which bacteria created this beautiful pattern!

I hope to get lots of good advice!

Thanks!

[Cathal Garvey]

Has anyone tried getting P.vortex[1] to grow on fabric and fixed its
natural colours and patterns somehow?

I know Brian Degger (BCC'd) has dealt with living dye in the past so he
might have some valuable advice or insight to offer.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paenibacillus_vortex

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[Patrik D'haeseleer]

The fractal patterns you get from P. vortex are due to swarming motility. I bet that's not going to work well on a patterned, water absorbing surface like fabric. Plus they're not pigmented anyway.

Simon Park's Exploring the Invisible blog covers a whole bunch of his experiments in growing different pigment bacteria on a range of materials. Here's a small selection:

Biogenic Textile Designs: three colours

BioGenic Textile Designs: A BioBatik in Purple and Red

Sixty Days of Goodbye Poems of Ophelia: investigations with bacteria and colour

BioChromes

Project Indigo: IndoChrome

Patrik

[Cathal Garvey]

> The fractal patterns you get from P. vortex are due to swarming
> motility. I bet that's not going to work well on a patterned, water
> absorbing surface like fabric.

Good point; surface preparation likely necessary to accomplish the
desired outcome. A light wax, maybe?

> Plus they're not pigmented anyway.

Quite right: I'd seen pictures of vivid blue P.vortex plates, but on
looking back they were stained that way. To get dye out of P.vortex
you'd likely need to transform with something. Thankfully, there's iGEM
precedent for Indigo, for which dye mordant methods are well established
by now. :)

On 23/03/15 07:37, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote:
> The fractal patterns you get from P. vortex are due to swarming
> motility. I bet that's not going to work well on a patterned, water
> absorbing surface like fabric. Plus they're not pigmented anyway.
>

> Simon Park's Exploring the Invisible <http://exploringtheinvisible.com/>

> blog covers a whole bunch of his experiments in growing different
> pigment bacteria on a range of materials. Here's a small selection:
>
> Biogenic Textile Designs: three colours

> <http://exploringtheinvisible.com/2015/01/20/biogenic-textile-designs-three-colours/>

>
> BioGenic Textile Designs: A BioBatik in Purple and Red

> <http://exploringtheinvisible.com/2015/01/13/biogenic-textile-designs-a-biobatik-in-purple-and-red/>

> Sixty Days of Goodbye Poems of Ophelia: investigations with bacteria and
> colour

> <http://exploringtheinvisible.com/2014/12/08/sixty-days-of-goodbye-poems-of-ophelia-investigations-with-bacteria-and-colour/>
>
> BioChromes <http://exploringtheinvisible.com/2014/09/29/biochromes/>
>
> Project Indigo: IndoChrome
> <http://exploringtheinvisible.com/2014/07/28/project-indigo-indochrome/>

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On Mar 20, 2015 11:03 AM, "Cathal Garvey" <cathal...@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:

Has anyone tried getting P.vortex[1] to grow on fabric and fixed its natural colours and patterns somehow?

I know Brian Degger (BCC'd) has dealt with living dye in the past so he might have some valuable advice or insight to offer.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paenibacillus_vortex

On 19/03/15 19:07, iris kloppenburg wrote:

Hi There!

I'm an designer who's working in the field of material design.
At the moment I'm working on a project creating patterns on fabrics
created by living organisms.
Because I'm not into the BIO field (yet) I look for some advice which
bacteria I can use to create patterns with.
See the picture as an example of a fabric which I created by burying the
fabric into the ground. So I don't know which bacteria created this
beautiful pattern!

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Thanks!

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