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Leather from horse chestnuts
The work this post covers and every source it draws on, each linked to the original.
The workFrom Nature to Nature (The New Materialist), on the Dutch Design Week 2026 programme ddw.nlResearch cited
Other sources
- OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 5.1 openstax.org
Images, slide by slide
- Slide 1
- Pieces of speckled cream foam, one shaped as a packaging insert, lie beside dark dried seaweedPhoto: The New MaterialistMuseum or journal record
- Slide 2
- A yellow loader scoops thick brown sargassum seaweed from a beach as waves break behind itPhoto: The New MaterialistMuseum or journal record
- Slide 3
- Diagram of skin in layers, a thin epidermis over a thick dermis drawn with wavy collagen fibers and a hypodermis belowImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawnMuseum or journal record
- Slide 4
- Diagram with two rowsImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against The New Materialist, From Nature to Nature, DDW press kit 2640 (New Leather 01: horse chestnut starch combined with the chestnuts' own tannins, the same natural compounds used to tan leather, into flexible sheets); Conca et al. 2024 for the classic row; source line drawn on the graphic
- Slide 5
- Diagram of three steps, Explore, Design and Scale, joined by arrows, above a note: each material sat beside its raw biomass, and the failures hung beside the samplesImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against The New Materialist, From Nature to Nature, DDW press kit 2640 (Explore, Design, Scale; an open lab: each material beside its raw biomass, test results and failures beside the samples); source line drawn on the graphic
- Ring frame
- Boot of light brown calfskin, Rijksmuseum (BK-1973-639-A)Frame: Rijksmuseum, PD, croppedMuseum or journal record