Lingur

For nearly a century the people below the waves have wrapped themselves in this fibrous material. Reminding people of a shimmering, diamorphous sheet of barely there seaweed, and swarming with gently moving macro-cells of semi-aqueous fibres, the Lingur is a fabric sought after by the most clothes centric of the Empire - especially for the Tidewalker.

The greatest advantage of the Lingur is how it can grow and expand once its material has been 'seeded' in its construction. Its greatest weakness is that it both easily decomposes when 'dead' and that it forms expanses of dead fabric when away from the growing seed.

Properties

Material Characteristics

Lingur grows from a seed. This seed is collected from a previous sheet of lingur, as it often rips its way through the soft matrices of the fabric. The seed is nutured within a heft of 'dead' lingur, until the seed absorbs enough nutrients to begin growing alive lingur and the old sheet decomposes away.

The sheet is semi-transparent, like some of the more membranous seaweeds, kelpy green and refracting and shimmering across the ever moving macro-cells.

History & Usage

Discovery

Lingur was discovered with bio-experiment of some of the deeper sea kelps, whose nutrients come from catching and absorbing the microplankton that swarm the deeper parts of the Nocturne Empire, Oceanus and south western Levis waters.

Distribution

Trade & Market

Lingur seeds do not survive long outside of the material they are produced in, and in the act of harvesting the seeds, the original material is streaked with rents and ridges that ruin the visuals of the material itself. As such, these seeds are often plucked and killed. Lingur growers are few and far between, because of the slow process of tending to the growing sheets they often have to cultivate, and the boom and bust nature of the trade of these seeds. As such the worth of Lingur has grown in itself, driving up the cost of a sheet of lingur that can be taken to market to trade.

Only the best clothes-weaver are chosen from the nocturne people to work in lingur. Shaping and pinning the sheets into the fascimille of dead fabrics and working them into clothing is considered difficult and any joint or seam can be seen through the semi-transparent material. A bad working of lingur by a clothes-weaver can kill a career, and many will not even try, knowing horror stories through the ages of those who have tried and failed.

Type

Polymer