Bolt Threads | 04.28.2021
Bolt Threads and our consortium partners have banded together to step into the future with products made from Mylo™. This April, consortium partner adidas turned that future into a reality with the new Stan Smith Mylo – an homage to their classic line and the first-ever shoe made from our mycelium-based Mylo™ material. Even better:...
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Bolt Threads | 03.19.2021
Last fall, we had the honor of announcing the Mylo™ consortium – four iconic companies that have banded together to bring our sustainable leather alternative to the world. Today, we’re excited to share an update on Mylo’s journey to scale with consortium partner and long-term collaborator Stella McCartney. The pioneering designer offers a peek into...
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Bolt Threads | 04.15.2018
Today we introduced a second new material to the world, with a little help from our friend Stella McCartney. Mylo™ is the world’s first commercially available take on modern leather grown from mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms. Mylo looks and feels like hand-crafted leather. It has a supple, natural feel, and because we control...
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Bolt Threads | 12.05.2017
Your wait for the next Bolt Threads product to hit the market is nearly over! Next week we’ll be unveiling our latest creation, the result of a collaboration with Mountain Meadow Wool Mill. Our partnership with the revitalizer of the American wool industry is so special that it brought us from our Emeryville labs to...
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Bolt Threads | 10.27.2017
Our partnership with Stella McCartney has shown that the future of fashion isn’t just in the lab – it’s on the catwalk, in the museum, and on its way to your wardrobe. Although luxury fashion is traditionally conservative and slow to change, world-renowned visionary designer Stella McCartney is always actively searching for innovative solutions. We...
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Bolt Threads | 08.26.2017
Today we’re thrilled to announce a partnership with Stella McCartney, a world-renowned brand known for its dedication to eco-innovation. We’ll be unveiling our first collaborative product, a one-of-a-kind custom dress made entirely of Bolt Microsilk™ at the New York Museum of Modern Art’s upcoming exhibit “Items: Is Fashion Modern?” opening October 1st. We’ve long been...
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Bolt Threads | 06.26.2017
What’s blue and red and webbed all over? Spider-Man: Homecoming, the latest installment of our favorite superhero film franchise. We often get compared to Spider-Man, and although we’re not superhuman, we share Peter Parker’s love of science and we’re using technology to make materials we think he’d be proud of. In fact, Spider-Man has been such an inspiration to...
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Bolt Threads | 03.13.2017
On March 10, we launched the world’s first ever human-made spider silk consumer product, a knit silk necktie. Why a tie? We chose a tie because we wanted to create an iconic product associated with the history of silk. Emperor Shih Huang Ti’s famous Terracotta Army in 210 BCE is depicted wearing a silk necktie...
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Bolt Threads | 11.05.2016
For millennia, people have been fascinated with the magic of fabric, especially silk. Sericulture, the practice of making silk and raising silkworms (and your vocab word for the day) began in China around 3000 BCE. The chief wife of the first Emperor of China is credited with accidentally discovering how to reel silk when a...
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Bolt Threads | 05.07.2016
Over the past few decades, a number of groups have tried to make spider silk via modern biotechnology techniques, but spider silk textile products still aren’t available for sale. Why not, and what are we doing differently? Engineering a silk-producing organism neatly sidesteps the obstacles we mentioned in the previous post, but the method has...
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Bolt Threads | 05.06.2016
Why has the dream of making tons of spider silk been so elusive, and how are we finally turning that dream into a reality? People have been captivated by the allure of silk for ages. The quest for spider silk has been particularly intense. The awesomeness of spider silk is a story in itself, but...
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