Mon 27 Sep 2021 | cocoon2440 | Stationstraat 24, Geel Five enthusiast students join forces to innovate the PAPUR technology. In the...

PAPUR mash sheets may be the answer to drying scobies with uneven thickness, a mind of their own, ... Not so new an idea. I made scoby...

This very old scoby ‘contracted’ aliens over months of growth to create warm red colours. The colour stayed well once dry and over two...

2020 was a year of setbacks due to the pandemic. But now we can leave that episode behind us: “Le PAPUR noveau est arrivee”. The...

The long COVID lockdown proved a set back. I hoped to revigorate the hibernating cultures in march, but travel restriction kept me...

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Passage #4 of the 2019 series in CCB#5 took two months to dry and in doing so showed contractions, turning it into a wavy kind of...

Blending materials and PAPUR mash creates new composites, with interesting features & looks, touch ‘n feel, applicability. Here we report...

A minor leak in CCB#5 has been observed by Freek in september, which at first seemed to be closing itself. The amount of liquid lost...

The first harvest of CCB#5 ready for drying! I’ve been doing some googling to find out how large the biggest scoby ever made was... found...

World premiere for 100% sustainable printing on stable PAPUR canvas. A printer with UV-cured, solvent-free ink was used (Milo Profi -...

An ‘open’ set up with six black trays of de Verbeke CCB’s #2 & #3 in spring got infected by alien fungi, which happily sporulated all on...

When scobies are mounted on cheescloth to dry, cloth & scoby strongly adhere to each other. The adhesion can be enhanced by treating the...

Sometimes the growth & drying of scobies gives unexpected resemblances. Like the fish. The few strands of yeast created a dark eye and...

Preserving PAPUR sheets.

The first transfer to thin bleached PAPUR, out of CCB#1. Plus coat of acrylic medium. Works well, feels a bit ‘plastic’, synthetic.

Out of one of the aquariums came a most beautifully hibernating scoby. The slow drying had allowed crystals to grow inside and...

Seeding of PAPUR flakes with fresh medium will yield a 3D object when seeded in a 3D mould. More experiments to follow.

Preparing the first results of the cultures in the office at Verbeke Foundation. Next harvest we set up display in the gallery...

The first mothers grew into larger leafs. Every culture behaved differently: in one the mother scoby was incorporated in the new leaf as...