Biodegradable furniture and carpets from the "Forest of fur"

Pine forests are the main source of wood in the world, and each year 600 million pine trees goes under the frame in only one EU. Latvian designer Tamara Oriole (Tamara Orjola) use the parts of trees that are usually just thrown away during the harvesting. Oriola creates biodegradable textiles, stools, and carpets of pine needles. Her project "wood Wool" ("Forest Wool"), give new life to the side-product of the timber industry, it uses proven and reliable technology, such as crushing, soaking, steaming and pressing.





Latvian designer Tamara Oriola works in Eindhoven, where he researched the potential of billions of pine needles left over from the timber industry. She realized that the dry needles can be a great alternative for all kinds of fibres, including cotton and coir (coconut fiber). It turns them into paper, textiles and composite boards, which are then used for the manufacture of furniture. The result is an elegant series of biodegradable carpets and chairs are made without glue or nails.





The process of turning pine needles into a new raw material for different applications of several stages, but each of them is standard practice, so would not require new, special production methods. The stages include collection, drying, crushing, soaking, steaming, carding, knitting and pressing needles for a pleasant and aromatic structures.





"Wood Wool" is currently on exhibition at the Academy of design of Eindhoven, which takes place in the framework of Dutch Design Week 2016 and the festival "the Dutch city of light." posted in inhabitat.com

 



Source: ecotechnology