Rugs and carpets made of scrap wood

Have you ever thought you could wrap yourself in...wood? German designer Elisa Trozyk proves it's possible. Her Wooden Textiles collection features a range of quilts, blankets, tablecloths and rugs made from 50% wood and 50% textiles.

Veneer waste from a furniture workshop that was being dismantled triggered the idea

Elisa Trozyk studied textile design in Berlin, and after graduation she went to London for a master's degree. Here she discovered a furniture workshop that was about to stop production and had wood waste from veneer work. That's how the idea of using wood scraps in a totally unusual way came about.

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

The Wooden Textiles collection shows how wood, a hard and rigid material, can become fluid when combined with textiles. The properties of wood are also transferred 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 on flat surfaces or mould itself onto a piece of furniture, taking on 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 stained. Pieces of wood are gradually attached to the textile backing, giving rise to interesting and attractive designs.

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

(source: elisastrozyk.de)