{"id":11997,"date":"2017-08-07T22:04:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T02:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11997"},"modified":"2017-08-07T22:05:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T02:05:03","slug":"clothing-made-from-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/08\/clothing-made-from-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothing made from milk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an odd and interesting story about how scientists in Mussolini&#8217;s Italy used the protein casein in milk to make an artificial wool-like fiber that could be turned into clothing. This new milk fiber was dubbed lanital (a compounding of <em>lana<\/em>, meaning wool, and <em>ital<\/em>, from Italia). You can read about it and watch a video at <em>Atlas Obscura<\/em> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/lanital-milk-dress-qmilch?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=atlas-page\">https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/lanital-milk-dress-qmilch?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=atlas-page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12031\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/milk-clothing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12031\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/milk-clothing-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/milk-clothing-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/milk-clothing-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/milk-clothing.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/milk-clothing-256x138.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the SNIA Viscosa factory at Varedo Courtesy of Marcello Modica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an odd and interesting story about how scientists in Mussolini&#8217;s Italy used the protein casein in milk to make an artificial wool-like fiber that could be turned into clothing. This new milk fiber was dubbed lanital (a compounding of lana, meaning wool, and ital, from Italia). You can read about it and watch a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12033,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997\/revisions\/12033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}