Rugs and carpets made of scrap wood

Ever thought you could wrap yourself in... wood? German designer Elisa Trozyk proves it's possible. Her Wooden Textiles collection includes a range of bedspreads, blankets, tablecloths and rugs made from 50% wood and 50% textile.

Veneer waste from a dismantling furniture workshop sparked the idea

Elisa Trozyk studied textile design in Berlin and went to London for a master's degree after graduating. There she discovered a furniture workshop that was about to cease production and had wood waste from veneer work. This gave him the idea of using scrap wood in a totally unusual way.

To make the blankets and quilts, Elisa uses a laser to cut tiny triangular-shaped pieces of wood from the recovered waste. These are then joined together as artistically as possible and attached to the surface of a fabric, usually cotton.

The Wooden Textiles collection shows how wood, a hard and rigid material, can gain fluidity when combined with textiles. The properties of wood also transfer to the textile, giving it strength and flexibility.

The small pieces of wood are carefully attached to the fabric, gradually building up a hydrid material that can lie perfectly flat on flat surfaces or be molded onto furniture in the most interesting shapes. The meeting of the flexibility of the fabric and the rigidity of the wood gives rise to unusual, moving and flowing shapes.

The wood used is cherry and maple, natural or painted. The pieces of wood are gradually glued to the fabric, creating interesting and eye-catching designs.

Elisa Trozyk, with her Wooden Textiles collection, is a trailblazer. She succeeds in going beyond the way we normally perceive materials and giving them new dimensions and uses. She harmoniously combines new materials with reclaimed ones, flexibility with rigidity. The material she invents becomes more and more appreciated, and Trozyk is invited to create other textile products that no one would ever have thought could be made of wood.

(source: elisastrozyk.de)