（带文稿）1111 用香菇做成的印尼腕表，了解一下？

广告时间叨哔叨的张老邪：

其实在这家腕表制造商之前就有美国生物用香菇菌丝做成了仿皮革包。如下图。那不需要动物也不需要石油的香菇“皮革”腕带制作成本多少？又有什么意向不到的特性呢？一起来看看吧~

PS：目前我的主播信用分只剩3分，所以... 更新是否被 Harmonized以及这个账号是否还会继续存在，只能随缘。停更的话，就在微信母号【小硕张老邪】上蹦跶。以及常速直接用倍速就OK。反复听，别贪多嚼不烂~

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       A watchmaker in Indonesia is using the root of mushrooms as material for making wristwatches.

        Mycelium leather, as the material is known, is strong yet movable. It is water-resistant. And, it is considered more environmentally friendly than non-organic material and animal skin.

       Erlambang Ajidarma is head of research at Mycotech, in Bandung city. The start-up business supplies mycelium leather to make straps for wristwatches. Ajidarma said his team has been testing several different kinds of mushrooms over the past three years.

    “Finally we found one mushroom with a mycelium that can be made into bindingmaterial,” he said.

    The company grows the mushrooms and then harvests the leather. Then the mushroom is dried and cut up

Wristwatches with straps made of mycelium leather are pictured at Pala Nusantara's workshop in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia, October 14, 2019. Picture taken October 14, 2019. (REUTERS/Irene Barlian)

        The process is complex. It takes around three weeks to make 10 square meters of material. But Ajidarma thinks it is worth it.

        It costs less to make mycelium leather than to make oil-based leather-like material. And, the mycelium manufacturing process produces much less carbon dioxide than the manufacturing of leather from cow skin.

        Ajidarma’s team also uses color-changing substances from leaves, roots and food waste to color the mycelium leather. He says the mushroom leather takes on the color more quickly than leather made from animal skin.

        The Indonesian watchmaking company Pala Nusantara cuts and puts the leather together into the straps for its watches.

        Nurcholis Irvan recently visited a watch shop in Jakarta. He said he would be “very interested” in buying such a product.

        He said, “I would be very interested in a watch made of natural material and plants because I’ve been allergic to a few that I bought in the past.”

        The watches cost between $64 and $93. Most are sold online.

        I’m Ashley Thompson.

Words in This Story

wristwatch - n. a watch that you wear on a strap or band around your wrist

strap - n. narrow and usually flat piece of a material that is used for fastening, holding together, or wrapping something

binding - n. a narrow strip of cloth attached along the edge of something

allergic - adj. of or relating to an allergy -- a medical condition that causes someone to become sick after eating, touching, or breathing something that is harmless to most people