Jewellery made from human milk

New mothers will be able to turn their own breast milk into jewellery, under techniques to be demonstrated by a group of artists.

The first range of milk necklaces, bracelets and other ornaments are to go on display later this year.

The jewellery is made by boiling human milk mixed with vinegar.



This causes the casein protein in the milk to harden into a plastic, which can then be painted and moulded into any shape.

A milk model of a baby’s head which can be used as a pendant for a necklace, and a combined milk-metal bracelet, are among the objects already created by the French design collective Duende.

Their work, which they call "perle de lait" (milk pearl) , is to go on display at an exhibition exploring the sharing of food between mother and child in September.

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