Bolt Threads is the biotech company best known for its Microsilk, a synthetic spider silk that’s made through fermentation with just water, sugar and engineered yeast. It’s completely sustainable, and ...

Bolt Threads, the maker of Microsilk, has introduced its second material–Mylo–the world’s first commercially available imitation leather grown from mycelium, the root structure of a mushroom. To do it ...

Bolt Threads is one of the top innovators in materials science-driven fashion fabrications, but its ambition to create sustainable and cruelty-free alternatives to leather and produce scalable spider ...

I’m holding a small square piece of what looks like leather. The front of the fabric feels like leather, soft and pebbled; it even smells slightly like leather. But the material, called Mylo, is made ...

A Bay Area biotech company hopes so. Bolt Threads is the Emeryville next-generation materials company founded by UCSF and UC Berkeley scientists. Their latest product is Mylo, an alternative leather ...

Biotech startups Bolt Threads, Ecovative and Zvnder have discovered how to make the most of mycelium — creating high-quality, sustainable versions of ubiquitous materials such as leather. The negative ...

Bolt Threads: the silicon valley start-up making sustainable fabric from spiders and mushrooms Silk from spiders and leather from mushrooms... Chloe Street speaks to Bolt Threads CEO Dan Widmaier ...