{"id":213358,"date":"2025-05-06T13:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/plants-you-can-wear-hydrogel-material-weaves-seeds-into-textiles"},"modified":"2025-05-06T13:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:08:01","slug":"plants-you-can-wear-hydrogel-material-weaves-seeds-into-textiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/plants-you-can-wear-hydrogel-material-weaves-seeds-into-textiles","title":{"rendered":"Plants you can wear: Hydrogel material weaves seeds into textiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plants-you-can-wear-hydrogel-material-weaves-seeds-into-textiles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans\u2019 relationships with plants is largely utilitarian, serving our needs. We generally either eat them or make things out of them.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the College of Human Ecology (CHE) have developed a design and fabrication approach that treats these living things as companions to humans, with seeds woven into hydrogel material for hairbands, wristbands, hats and sandals, among other applications. The seeds grow into sprouts if taken care of properly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor most of human history, we have lived alongside plants, and they\u2019ve been leveraged by humans to be used as food or spun into yarns for fabric,\u201d said Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, associate professor of human centered design (CHE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans\u2019 relationships with plants is largely utilitarian, serving our needs. We generally either eat them or make things out of them. Researchers in the College of Human Ecology (CHE) have developed a design and fabrication approach that treats these living things as companions to humans, with seeds woven into hydrogel material for hairbands, wristbands, hats [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}