{"id":18916,"date":"2025-05-15T21:37:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T01:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/?post_type=student-work&#038;p=18916"},"modified":"2025-05-15T21:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T01:37:56","slug":"summer-zhao-4","status":"publish","type":"student-work","link":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/student-work\/summer-zhao-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Zhao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For our project, we decided to work with Kombucha. Over the span of around two weeks, we grew small kombucha leather samples from a SCOBY. We used different types of tea as the main variable, yielding varying results. We are using kombucha leather as an alternative material for the fashion field. Since we start with a small-scale trial, we think that we can take advantage of using kombucha leather as a wearable material and do a series of accessory sets. As a result, we designed two components for the set, which include a pair of earrings and a ring. 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