The Lab-Grown Beanie is built from a completely new type of molecularly engineered biomaterial. So if it looks like it was grown in a petri dish, then assembled by robots… that’s because it was. This is knitwear, but not as you know it.
 
The beauty of creating your own biomaterial is you can make it feel like anything you want. So the Lab-Grown Beanie is ultrasoft and feels like cashmere or silk. It’s blended with Merino to make it strong and thermoregulating. And the beanie is reversible to make the most of the crazy honeycomb patterns, textures and lab-grown aesthetic.
 
Building a never-seen-before biomaterial involves selecting DNA sequences from a database of hundreds of different animals and insects – from sheep and squid, to spiders and crickets. Injecting these sequences into thousands of tiny microbes – a process called microorganism programming. Then brewing these microbes with sugar, which they transform into a protein polymer to create a completely new type of biomaterial.