AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Sustainable Cities & Communities, Responsible Consumption & Production, Climate Action, Life On Land
KEYWORDS
mycelium, vegan , fashion
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Bolt Threads
WEBSITE
https://www.mylo-unleather.com/
Mylo
'Leather' grown from mycelium
For billions of years, mycelium has grown beneath our feet and served as ecological connective tissue. A sprawling, infinitely renewable, interlaced web, it threads through soil, plant bodies, and along river beds to break down organic matter and provide nutrients to plants and trees. It brings sustenance to all living species and is the literal world wide web.
We developed Mylo by engineering mycelium into a material that is everything you love about leather without everything you don’t. Mylo is a sustainable alternative to leather – soft, supple, and less harmful to the planet – that will become available to the world through our consortium partners.