Part III. Flipt Case as a Fluid Monument in Urban Life

Every flipt case is a small, silent monument.

The mycelium is paused at the exact moment its structure becomes strong, beautiful, and stable. It is simply held still, like a pressed leaf or a geological layer, while the mother culture it once belonged to continues to grow elsewhere.

This is why each case feels different in the hand: the subtle fibers, the organic grain, the softness that ages rather than degrades. It is life, momentarily crystallized.

To us, this is a form of offering without harm—a material that gives without requiring death, a quiet altar carried through the movement of daily urban life.

Mycelium shows us that strength does not need domination, that beauty does not need extraction, and that renewal can be endless if we simply step back.

This is the wisdom we hope flipt brings into your everyday:

a reminder that even the smallest object in your pocket can carry a different future.

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Only at the end do we shape the material, layering the slurry through a quiet dry-coating process into sheets of mycelium leather.

Auther: Yitian J

Images from: https://besgroup.org/2013/07/11/save-macritchie-forest-12-mushrooms/

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