1) Room set with round soft cobbles rug on the floor, DNA soft cobbles on the wall, a prototype chair and coffee table using recycled office water bottles recycled bank of England notes in waste polycarbonate, and beech legs which I turned myself!
Ceramics (see full image to view) were from a project to support local production of ceramics in he UK. These were sold at Liberty and were commissioned by Nicole Farhi home.
(please see 1a for more info on soft cobbles).
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1a) Soft cobbles is a lifestyle lead design which aims to use ecologically friendly materials in a design which succeeds on its own aesthetic merits. Using rare breed wool fibre form small holdings in the UK, the textile is constructed from balls of felted fleece, sewn together with cobblers twine. the balls look like pebbles, but they are soft and can be used indoors as rugs, throws or wall pieces, to echo real pebbles outside.
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2) London Architects Pascall and Watson commissioned an acoustic, art textile to enhance a round conference room and baffle the echo. This is the orange room with soft cobbles (felt balls) hanging in a systematic design sequence.
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3) London architect Pascall and Watson commissioned a second acoustic, art textile to enhance a round conference room and baffle the echo. This is the blue room, with new disc shaped soft cobbles (felt balls) hanging in a systematic design sequence.
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4) 'Shaggy trees by moonlight'. This rug / wall-hanging uses as many environmentally friendly yarns as possible, including hand spun wild hemp, alpaca from UK herds, jute warping thread, factory ends, unbleached naturally coloured wool and cotton etc.
The shag is created using a hand intervention where each tuft is doubled in the normal length that my machine allows. The surfaces of the rug are textured and have many lengths and materials which create different sensual surfaces to touch. 2.3 m x 1.8 m. Available for sale.
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5)'Blue Moon in a boat' is a rug design which can be used in interior schemes where the space has more than one function. For example, kitchen / living or living / sleeping. The colours at one end of the rug range from light to dark shades of one colour palette and can inspire a colour scheme in one side of the dual purpose room. Colours from the other end of the rug can be chosen (either dark or light shades) to relate to a colour scheme on the other side of the dual function room.
The rug is large enough to allow 2 settees to sit facing each other, and for a glass table or coffee table to sit on the rug. In this way the rug draws together the uses and colours of a dual purpose living space, and makes deciding how, where and why to use a contemporary rug very easy. 2.3 m x 1.8 m. Available for sale.
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6) 'Landscape' is part of a series of rugs which uses as many Eco-friendly yarns as there are available as I continue to research, source and develop a range of materials to use.
Each landscape, which is based on the lovely enclosed fields and rolling vistas of Dorset, contains fields of textured stripes, which are sensual to walk on, areas of hand cut pile, and rough fields of hand spun wild hemp, next to soft fields of Alpaca from UK herds. The rug shown is 2.3 m x 1.8 m. It is available for sale and can be made to order in different sizes.
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7) 'The White Horse' has become a symbol of my search for environmentally friendly materials to use. The simple shape of a running horse is based on the white chalk horses cut into the hills of the UK, which some scholars believe to have been ancient advertising hoardings (get your horses here …) Most white horses are Victorian replacements for long lost ancient horses. The turf grows over the chalk very quickly, so the retention of any chalk figure relies on an effort of the local community for its upkeep. Community is an important part of sustainability. Sharing resources and co-ordinating work, maintaining skills, and protecting chains of supply.
The White Horse rug reached the final of the Classic Design Awards at the Victoria and Albert museum at the beginning of 2006. It includes some naturally dyed yarns, cream alpaca, recycled white wool, and factory ends. The long, shaggy 'turf' laps over and softens the lines of the running horse.
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8) 'Tree' In a mixture of shaggy pile and loop pile textures. 1m x 1 8m available for sale.
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9) 'Bohemian dragonfly and peonies'. 1.8 m x 1.3 m. Home dyed (dye bath exhausted) rug from factory yarn ends.
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10) 'Mexican line dancing standard lamp'. A prototype for a design product using recycled waste textiles.
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