Lily Steiner | Kombucha Jacket

Lily’s work began with juicing. As she headed down a rabbit hole exploring what to do with the solid waste created by juicing, she stumbled across a variety of materials made and / or grown from food. These explorations led her to “vegan leather,” created from the scoby of a kombucha culture. Countless experiments with laser cutting, dyeing, embedding fibers, etc., led her to the design and creation of a vegan leather made from material of her own growing.