Week 4: Biofabricating Dyes and Materials

Status: Documented

16 Oct, 2018

Biodyes and Bioplastics has very limited application, thats what I thought before I did hands on with Biodyes and Bioplastic. Its interesting to see how I can probably fit in different shades and soft biodegradable plastic in my designs. I came across really nice work by designers who integrated these in their products, Please check reference links above. Am planning around my final outcome of this assignment to be such that I could explore different natural colours and different kinds of Bioplastics. Also, While performing these tasks I realised one of my recipes is practiced in every Indian house. That is, where we use spoiled milk for making hard material and in India its called "Home made cottage Cheese "Paneer". Another Recipe is with Mango pulp, making fruit leather, this is one I feel can be relevant for making wallets. Again, it is also commonly made in India where mango is dried and packed in thin slices with some spices to enjoy as candy. Another practice is where I made mold of Zios and poured Glycerine recipe. Bio dying is another process where we used diferent kinds of fruits, vegetables and spices for dying but I really liked the light shades which I got in the end.


Objectives | Tasks at hand

Circular

For this week, I have tasked myself of shortlisting Turmeric, Pomengerate, Coffee and Charcoal as my Bio dying ingredients and Milk and Mango as my Bio Plastic ingredients.

Nishtha:" This assignment is going to go long"
Mahavir: "Agreed, much easier to chew different colored fruits and click an image of me every time the color of my tongue changes".

Conversation between Myself and Nishtha

Reffered Links



Tips and Tricks


Info Panel

Weighing helps only in the beginning. Beyond a point, it becomes similar to cooking-As per Taste

Warning Notes

1) Too much of anything is bad
2) Dont overvacuum as curing speedens up under vacuum.

Danger Panel

1) Wear gloves while handling baking soda.
2) Though recipes are food safe, better to keep lab seperate from the pantry.

Success Panel

1) Boiling helps
2) One should also understand effect on color with use of acids or basis( pH variations)

F.A.Q.

I usually ask the Global team or myself questions relevant to the week's task.I plan to use this section to help me document for our lab's next batch of students important questions and their answers discussed during Global review/Recitation.

There wasn't really any calculation needed in the quantity of dyeing material as we as such had to darken or lighten the die by modiying the pH.
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