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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

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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?

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Using a set amount of colours, in a geometric grid, we experimented with yarn lengths to create

optical gradients

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Want to know more?

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Please go to Portego's collection to see all launched items

 

Get in touch for bespoke versions

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