Skin Grafts and living textiles

There is much on the internet relating to skin grafts- the process of removing skin from one area of the body to another or creating a second synthetic skin.

Here are some interesting images that i have come across that could be explored further-

These are obviously appealing from a textiles viewpoint, but perhaps someone elses research has found traditional methods or grafting (or protecting) skin that we could look at with view to creating our own medical textiles.

(Think back to the living textiles at the talk we attended- I will try and get the designers name from Linda).