Comment by rjmunro
1 month ago
I want someone to engineer a fabric / fibre that grows with each wash rather than shrinks. I feel like with modern materials science it must be possible.
I'd use it for children's clothes. After you wash the clothes, you wait for the kid to grow a bit before they wear it again. No more growing out of your favourite things.
Where would the extra mass come from? Water? CO2 in the air?
It doesn't need extra mass, it needs to stretch out a bit.