Making patterns on denim

We exported the idea of cleaning stains with biology and our methods to do so into a more artistic approach with the indigo part of our project. Our goal is to find microorganisms and enzymes that can degrade indigo and to test them on denim. The final aim will be to use them to make patterns on jeans.

We basically reproduce the work of enzyme and microbe’s team in a smaller scale: through literature we identified one interesting enzyme that we tested, and we collected different microbes with potential capacity of degradation of indigo.