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- Human hair ropeHuman hair is a natural resource which mostly ends up in landfill or slowly decays in the environment. This causes several problems for both the environment and human health, releasing toxic gasses and choking the drainage system. Human hair has a high tensile strength, is thermally insulating, flexible, oil-absorbent and is light weight. And perfect for these ropes.
- Natural HairWool is 100% natural, renewable and biodegradable. Keeping you warm in the winter and cool in the summer, wool is also breathable, controls humidity and is flame retardant. Natural Hair is a collection featuring Dutch Texel wool, Merino wool, cashmere, Alpaca and camel wool. These wool materials are ideal for in insulation, in mattresses, upholstery, garments and knitwear.
- Black N TanCarpet Black N Tan, inspired by hair treatment in African culture and the hidden beauty of dirt on cows hair. Out of graduation project, A tuft of hair. Bath rug, tickling, a massage for your feet!
- CauraCaura is a rather extravagant range of woolen carpets which is achieved by the addition of animal hair. Caura d’Alp has hair of the mountain goat attached to the woollen carpet. Caura Cotschna contains hair of long-hair goats, which has a pretty human look and touch.
- HairyThe mosaic collection is made from calf and cow skins. The black and white or brown and white bases can be dyed to obtain unusual style effects. Both lines,Rodeo chic & Hairy, are given a water- and oil-repellent treatment, absorbed by the skin but not by the hair, which guarantees resistance to liquids and dirt.
- FeltDesigner Margaret van Bekkum uses felt to makes all sorts of designs. Some of her felts are made of unusual materials, such as copper, and camel and dog hair. Especially felting the latter is a challenge, as the hair has a different structure and has to be felted using a different technique. Felting with copper creates a surprising effect and a soft and touchable material, producing diffuse light.
- ZelfoBlack/Light fibre flecks is made of sisal ('flume tow'). Mid Brown overall is made of coir (coconut ‘hair'). Golden brown overall is made of waste packaging fibre (post consumer waste) + Sawdust (post industrial residual). Yellow/White spots is made of cotton (industry residual) + Waste paper (Post consumer). It is designed as a laminate finish and has high wear characteristic.
- Mojave leatherThe leather is embossed and etched to create patterns that remind of delicate lace with floral or organic patterns. The designs of both the Mojave Brussels and the Mojave Moroccan Lace collections are carefully etched into a hair-on-hide surface. Coordinating fabric backing provides a subtle backdrop.
- Faux furThese fake furs are available in a variety of colours and 'hair lengths'. They is made of polyethylene, acrylic, and/or acetate.
- LeatherweavesDiamond, which give different styles of grain and handle in a wealth of colours. They also offer embossed, b-colour and haired leathers, together with reptiles, exotic skins, leather weaves and tiles. The high level of hand crafting involved in the preparation provides opportunities for creativity by playing on sizes, number, colours and kind of leather weaved.
- FlaxcompositesThese lightweight composites are made of flax and biobased resin. It is partly biobased polyester and full biobased PLA (Polylactic Acid). Flaxcomposites blends PLA natural resin with natural linen (flax) yarns to obtain a meltable flexible thick sheet that can be moulded into various shapes. You simply need a source of heat to put in shape the textile (few minutes with a powerful hair dryer!).
- Tropical SplashTropical Splash hides are a mix of hair-on cowhide and finished leather that have
- LoopsLoops textile designed by Marianne Kemp is made from horsehair weaving; a combination of orange, grey, black and red horsehair in a natural plain weave of linen. The weaving process of Loops manipulates the bunches of hair through a special looping process. The horsehair is sourced from live horses overseas, mainly from the Far East, Mongolia.
- Melatone polycarbonateMelatone polycarbonate panels are translucent panels with integrated natural elements such as fibres, hairs, leaves and wood.
- ādara® woven fabricādara® woven fabric is a textile developed from keratin based fibres derived from human hair, engineered to perform as a durable interior material while offering a lower impact alternative to conventional fibres. Functionally, the material benefits from the inherent properties of keratin.
- TaOk 3D tilesThese handcrafted tiles feature geometrical ornaments, which are the result of repeating digitally developed graphic patterns and are fired using an ancient Japanese firing technique. TaOk enables tiles to become freestanding objects in the game of dimensions. The basic ideas are a rounded square and petal-shaped cut-outs, which are staggered and superimposed in two planes, so as to reveal each other.
- VeSta & KuQua tilesThese handcrafted tiles feature geometrical ornaments, which are the result of repeating digitally developed graphic patterns and are fired using an ancient Japanese firing technique. Together with the architects Loeliger Strub the VeSta tile wit floral pattern was produced for a high-rise building in Zurich. The four-part series of the pattern KuQua is based on blending a sphere with a square.
