Lab-Grown Beanie
A beautifully soft beanie. That happens to be made with a molecularly engineered biomaterial.
- Built from a completely new type of molecularly engineered biomaterial
- Ultrasoft yarn that feels like cashmere or silk
- Grown in a petri dish
The Lab-Grown Beanie is built from a completely new type of molecularly engineered biomaterial. So if it looks like it was grown in a petri dish, then assembled by robots… that’s because it was. This is knitwear, but not as you know it.
The beauty of creating your own biomaterial is you can make it feel like anything you want. So the Lab-Grown Beanie is ultrasoft and feels like cashmere or silk. It’s blended with Merino to make it strong and thermoregulating. And the beanie is reversible to make the most of the crazy honeycomb patterns, textures and lab-grown aesthetic.
Building a never-seen-before biomaterial involves selecting DNA sequences from a database of hundreds of different animals and insects – from sheep and squid, to spiders and crickets. Injecting these sequences into thousands of tiny microbes – a process called microorganism programming. Then brewing these microbes with sugar, which they transform into a protein polymer to create a completely new type of biomaterial.
Vollebak Gift Card
Perfect for last-minute gifts from the future.
BUYING A GIFT CARD
All of our gift cards are in GBP amounts, but you can still buy them and spend them in other currencies. When you buy a gift card in another currency, the GBP value will be converted using the exchange rate at the time of checkout. We’ll email the gift card straight over to you, so you don’t have to wait for anything to be posted out. The email will include a link you can use to have the gift card emailed directly to the person you've bought it for – and you can schedule this for a specific day and time if you want to.
SPENDING A GIFT CARD
You can spend your gift card all in one go, over multiple purchases, or as part payment towards a purchase. If you’re checking out in GBP your gift card will be applied at the GBP value shown on the gift card. If you’re checking out in another currency, the GBP value will be converted using the exchange rate at the time of checkout (which may be different to the exchange rate at the time the gift card was purchased).
Our terms and conditions are all pretty straightforward
There’s no expiry date that you have to use the gift card by. The gift cards themselves are non-refundable, but if someone wants to return something they've bought with a gift card, we'll refund the money back onto the gift card so they can buy something else. And you can’t use a gift card to buy another gift card because that would be weird.