Photography by Ronald Smits
Tufting for Portego
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Diving into the high tech field of tufting, a textile technique to create rugs, we travelled to the North of Italy to work with a local production company that are highly expertised. Collaborating with them intensively, and experimenting a lot, made us discover this technique that is fully automated and computer generated.
In our ambition to mix crafts & high tech, we created a design to work with a strict grid, to play with the height of the loops to create organic gradients that we can apply in many more designs to come.
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Commissioned by Portego
working with high tech tufting machines to
create organic and
soft gradients
How to use the material in such a way that a computer generated image, made on a high tech machine, results in a soft layer, with an organic feel?
Using a set amount of colours, in a geometric grid, we experimented with yarn lengths to create
optical gradients
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