POLY PORE PAPER
- 100 % FUNGAL FIBERS -
- 100 % FUNGAL FIBERS -
Trametes gibbosa, Fomitopsis pinicola, Ganoderma lucidum, Pleurotus ostreatus
Odorant as a forest
Tactile as a skin
Resonant as clay
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at once
resistant & fragile
resistant & fragile
Trametes gibbosa - picked up by the Coli river in Dordogne, France
Types of skeletal hyphae and sclerids. Del. R. Gilbertson
HYPHAE
Hyphae are the constituent elements of filamentous and mushroom-forming fungi. Their ramification constitutes mycelia, the vegetative part of most Agaricomycetes. The initial hyphae, called generative hyphae, emerge from germinating spores produced by sporocarps (mushrooms) and are present in all filamentous Agaricomycetes fungi.
As the name suggests, these generative hyphae can generate other types of hyphae, depending on the fungi: skeletal or ligative (binding) hyphae. The combination of these different hyphal types can create many unique properties and structures, which then become caracteristics of fungal-based materials like Poly Pore Paper.
Monomitic (A), dimitic (B-C), or trimitic (D) hyphal systems
and their respective mechanical properties (Naleway, 2022)
CHITIN
Chitin is the structural component or chemical blueprint of the fungal cell wall. It also constitutes the exoskeleton of arthropods (i.e., insects, cephalopods and shellfish), becomes solid when associated with CaCO3 and is estimated to be the second most abundant polymer on Earth after cellulose.
Pycnoporus cinnabarius x10
Etymology
PORE
from Latin porus
from Greek πόρος, passage
compare περάω, penetrate
compare Sanscrit. par, going beyond
from Greek πόρος, passage
compare περάω, penetrate
compare Sanscrit. par, going beyond
WHAT IF ?
With their enzymatic arsenal, wood-rot fungi excels in degrading lignocellulosic biomass. Fungi-cultivation on by-products or so-called "wastes" of human activities can replace their thermal combustion and burial, major pollutions of air and soil quality, by cascading value-chains of fungal materials. Interleaving fungi-cultures in between existing economies holds the potential for their circular transformation.
Case-exemple: MYCOCYCLE
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
How does this paper degrades in diverse soils and waters ? Up to what extend is the fiber recyclable ?
Laser-cut at YesWeFab on
Trametes versicolor growing under the Pichou Bridge
Montignac-Lascaux | Dordogne
" MYCOCASH "
Printed on Trametes versicolor
ABOUT POLYPORES
Polypore refers to the morphology of the mushroom, literally meaning "multiple pores".
Main visible characters (left): applied on the substrate or often forming a perpendicular console (sometimes also with a stipe-holding cap) ; tubular fertile surface, opening by pores inclined downward ; leathery or ligneous consistency .
The estimated ~500 species belong to diverse evolutive ligneages. In systematics, they are ranked in different orders (right): Polyporales, Thelephorales, Ganodermatales, Hymenochaetales, etc. , which accounts for a viable fungal structure that is mechanically and physically fit to various environments.
Determination key for perennial polypores. Perennial means that each year (or exceptionnaly two times a year) a round of "pores" adds up to those already grown. Click here for source.
CRAFTS NARRATIVES
« Les outils manuels peuvent être fascinants. Un bon outil qui a été bien utilisé possède une qualité mystérieuse et presque rassurante (...) Les formes de papetiers m'attirent dans ce sens et c'est sans doute pour cela que j'en fait. Faire des outils est pour moi une forme humble de sculpture sociale. Les outils ont aussi une vie indépendante. »
MOORE (Timothy) « A Western mold making », Handpapermaking, été 1987, pages 20 à 25
« Le filigrane garde discrètement en mémoire, le talent modeste du maître ou des ouvriers qui ont créé cet espace fragile et léger et qui pourtant a resisté à tout et porté jusqu'à nous les mots d'un monde disparu »
CARRIER (Maria), NIDOS (Denis), Le coeur et l'ouvrage – artisans immortels, La Lauze éditions, 2001
BOOKS
Paper mould and mouldmaker, LOEBER (E.G.), Amsterdam, The Paper Publications Society/Labarre Foundation, 1983
European Hand Papermaking: Traditions, Tools, and Techniques, BARRETT T., MOORE T., 2018, Legacy Press, 2018.
LINKS
https://timothymooretools.com/