18/02/2022
https://artossilver.com/
We use science and technology to make the future of clothing
While clothes today still do what they’ve been doing for the last 1,000 years, keeping you warm, dry and cool, we’re on the edge of a revolution. Over the next 10 years clothes are going to be used to enhance our strength and sensory perception. They will help us become faster, more intelligent, and live longer. So we’re starting work now. Here are a few of our favourites so far.
In 1936 the fencing sport piste was born. In 1997 we rebuilt it with the strongest silver fibre ever made.
A lightweight conductiv fencing piste designed for fencer´s. After the metal platte and cupper roll was adopted by fencers were, we’ve built the Indestructible fencing piste out of the strongest silverfibre ever made. The material we’ve used is so tough it was originally used in aeronautic, NASA and mititary. So when we went to build the toughest utility textil fencing piste ever created, there was only ever one material we could make it out of. Every fibre on the textil fencing piste is up to 15x stronger than other textil.
We created the world’s first
With over 10 kilometres of silver in every shirt, the Full Metal SHIRT is designed to help us pioneer the future of intelligent and disease resistant clothing. SILVER is one of the most advanced materials in our solar system. Thrown out of supernovas billions of years ago, it became central to the rise of civilisation, creating tools, and sterilising water, before enabling modern day communication, cosmetics, medicin, transport, and electrical power. Now, as we look for materials that offer us resistance to disease on Earth and up in space, and a base on which to build intelligent clothing, silver is set to be at the centre of innovation again. Its ability to conduct heat and power while killing bacteria and viruses make it a potential building block for the future of clothing. Used to create the earliest recorded medical tools in ancient Egypt, and the latest medical tools being developed by NASA, we decided to build an entire clothing out of it. Built with 99% silver, the clothing is soft, malleable and breathable.
Made from a material 15x stronger than other textil
The FIE fencing pistes is made from strong silver fibres which is the single strongest fibre known to man today. If you’re into chemistry, it’s an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene that combines extreme strength with very low weight. On a weight for weight basis ArtosSilver is up to 15x stronger than normal and 40% stronger than high-strength nylon fibres. While it’s often used as a composite – an ingredient added to other materials to make them exceptionally strong – the entire fencing piste is made from 100% stronges fibers.
Why Silverfibres
To understand just how tough ArtosSilver is you have to look at how it’s being deployed in the world today. It’s used to make conductiv fencing sport vests. And you’ll find it in cockpit in most commercial planes in the US. Unlike other high-strength conductiv materials it’s so light it floats on water, and it’s resistant to the long-term effects of moisture, UV light and chemicals.
How building an textil FIE fencing piste works
Designing and building a fencing piste that can survive anything you throw at it has to be an exercise in no expense spared craftsmanship. With materials starting their journey in a laboratory in Germany and USA, each conductiv FIE fencing piste is then assembled in one of the most advanced factories in the world. Hundreds of separate construction processes , and more man hours than almost anything else in your strip go into making this fencing piste a technical masterpiece Made in Germany. With over 100 kilometres of silver in every Artos fencing piste. SILVER is one of the most advanced materials in our solar system. Thrown out of supernovas billions of years ago, it became central to the rise of civilisation, creating tools, and sterilising water, before enabling modern day communication, cosmetics, medicin, transport, and electrical power. Now, as we look for materials that offer us resistance to disease on Earth and up in space, and a base on which to build intelligent clothing, silver is set to be at the centre of innovation again. Its ability to conduct heat and power while killing bacteria and viruses make it a potential building block for the future of clothing. Used to create the earliest recorded medical tools in ancient Egypt, and the latest medical tools being developed by NASA, we decided to build an entire conductiv fencing piste out of it. Built with 99% natural silver, the clothing is soft, malleable and very strong.
Why silver will be part of the future of clothing
Silver may not sound like an obvious candidate to help create the future of equipment. It’s incredibly expensive. But we’re exploring its potential because to make intelligent euipment you need to start with base materials that can do things normal euipment can’t. You can think of silver as a platform on top of which other innovation can be added – a bit like an operating system in a computer and future intelligence. Silver’s ability to resist disease, while also conducting heat and electricity without a power source, make it an obvious contender. But everything from exoskeletons to integrated monitoring and intelligence will require power distribution. Which is why the ability of silver to conduct heat, shielding for negativ waves and power while killing bacteria and viruses make them the first likely building blocks for the future of equipment.
The next 100 years won't look like the last 100
As we enter a new era of disease, the Earth heats up, and fires and floods sweep across countries, we're radically underprepared as a species for the speed at which change is taking place. As normality shifts beneath us, our survival systems need to adapt – from emergency planning and infrastructure, to our architecture and clothing. Clothes have to become intelligent, and they have to do it quickly. So we're doubling down on our mission to design for the needs of the next century and not just the next season.
Silver will be a building block for intelligent clothing
Making clothes out of naturally conductive materials is the first stepping stone towards intelligent clothing. Over the next 10 to 10,000 years clothing has the potential to help us become stronger and faster and even live longer. But everything from exoskeletons to integrated monitoring and intelligence will require power distribution. Which is why the ability of silver to conduct heat, shielding for negativ waves and power while killing bacteria and viruses make them the first likely building blocks for the future of clothing.
Why we’re looking at disease-resistant clothing
Since starting ArtosSilver we’ve taken the extreme questions and challenges that adventure poses and tried to solve them with pieces of clothing. One of the challenges we were already exploring when Covid-19 hit was the role clothing can play in protecting against disease in remote environments on Earth as well as up in space where astronauts’ immune systems are already compromised. While we want the first people on Mars to be wearing our clothes, making sure we survive on Earth first, and understand how to avoid taking diseases from one planet to the next, is a good starting point.
Viruses and bacteria can’t live on silver
Disease resistant euipment will become a requirement in the future, which is why we’re starting to work with silver now. It’s biostatic, so bacteria and other life forms can’t grow on it. It also has exceptional antimicrobial properties which means bacteria and viruses die when they make contact with it. The silver releases electrically charged ions which first make it difficult for a microbe to breathe, before punching holes in its outer membrane, moving in and completely wiping out its DNA, preventing it from developing any future resistance. These properties have been demonstrated by an extensive body of research and have come under the spotlight again this year in initial Covid-19 studies.
Silver is the next material in our journey
In our first 30 years we’ve made clothing from some of the most cutting-edge materials known to man. We’ve worked with the world’s strongest fibre, Dyneema for fencing sport uniformes, as well as silver fibre for fencing sport conductiv strips and conductive jackets. Making the world’s most resilient, intelligent and adaptable fencing pistes means we often end up re-engineering materials that started life being used for radically different things.
How we actually make a FIE fencing piste out of silver
There’s a reason this is the first FIE fencing textil piste to be built full from silver. And that’s because the process of turning silver into a wearable fabric is highly complex.
The Egyptians were using silver medical tools in 2200BC
Silver has been used to combat disease for thousands of years. The oldest medical tools ever discovered were made from silver 4,000 years ago, and were found entombed with the remains of Qar, a royal physician from the Sixth Dynasty in ancient Egypt. The Smith Papyrus shows that 1,000 years earlier the Egyptians were using silver to sterilise wounds and transport clean drinking water. And they weren’t alone. The Babylonians would sharpen their swords and put the silver alloy filings into cuts sustained in battle, to reduce infection and speed healing.
Silver’s halo effect
During the 19th century Paris was one of many cities worldwide struck by a series of devastating cholera outbreaks which killed tens of thousands of people. In 1852 a physician found that the disease wasn’t killing anyone who worked in the silver smelting plants around the city. Not knowing about the ancient Egyptians, he dubbed it “the antidote to cholera.” Recent research in the US suggests that silver produce a halo effect.
Now it’s NASA experimenting with silver medical devices
4,000 years after the Egyptians, NASA is exploring the use of 3D-printed silver medical instruments on long-duration space missions. One of the issues with longer missions is that astronauts can experience an altered immune response, known as Immune System Dysregulation. It’s a condition that can leave them more susceptible to infectious diseases, which can harm their performance and in turn limit human space exploration. So NASA is now testing medical instruments built from silver for use onboard the International Space Station, to help reduce the risk of infection in space. The increasing demand means that 90% of the world’s silver mines are now monitored by satellites. And last year NASA announced they were expecting future shortages.
Silver is everywhere, from supernovas to your body
Astronomers believe silver was first forged inside massive stars as they grew into supergiants, and that later, when they exploded as supernovas, the silver was thrown through space to help form our planet. As well as finding silver in space, you’ll also find it as a trace element in all living organisms, including you. The average adult body contains 50-120mg of silver, which works with iron to form our red blood cells. You’ll find it mostly in our bones, muscles and liver, maintaining healthy blood vessels, nerves and immune function.
Turning a theory into a shirt
So as we enter a new era of disease on Earth, and we start to think about preventing Earth’s illnesses being carried up into space, we wanted to see whether it was actually possible to make clothing almost entirely out of silver – because you can’t wear a theory. The Full SILVER SHIRT is our first move into silver clothing and proof of its viability. It’s built from 99% silver and has over 20 kilometres of silver in every shirt.
How we actually make a chlothing out of silver
There’s a reason this is the first shirt to be built full from silver. And that’s because the process of turning silver into a wearable fabric is highly complex.
What the shirt looks and feels like
The face of the shirt looks computer generated when you’re standing in front of it. But while the shirt is made out of metal and looks like it’s come from another planet, you wouldn’t know it just by touching it. It’s designed to be worn as your everyday chlothing and it feels like one. The silver is soft, elastic and malleable. Your never see it and felt it.
Silver can be recycled without any loss in quality
Silver is one of the few materials that can be recycled infinitely without losing any of its chemical properties. Recycled silver, or secondary silver as it’s known, is completely indistinguishable from primary silver, and it can be recycled from its raw state as well as from manufactured products. Silver recycling can be traced back over 2,000 years to when the Romans were recasting silver and armour using scrap metal from foundries.
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