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Fashion collection woven from Uruguayan wool by Mercedes Arocena and Lucía...
Uruguayan designers Mercedes Arocena and Lucía Benítez created this collection of garments entirely using wool sourced from their native country. Arocena and Benítez, who studied together at the...
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Music video for James' new single Moving On is a stop-motion meditation on...
Dezeen Music Project: a character made from yellow wool unwinds in this heart-wrenching stop-motion music video created by animator Ainslie Henderson for UK band James. Henderson's video for James' new...
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Vík Prjónsdóttir launches latest wing-shaped blankets made from Icelandic wool
Design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir has launched two Icelandic wool blankets shaped to look like the wings of a swan and an eider duck as part of a range of avian-influenced covers. King Eider blanket...
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Kilo pitches giant camel-hair tent outside Jean Nouvel's Institut du Monde...
Architecture studio Kilo has pitched a traditional Moroccan camel and goat wool tent in front of the patterned glass and metal facade of Jean Nouvel's Institut du Monde Arabe building in Paris. French...
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Jule Waibel’s pine cone-shaped seats are made by steam-folding wool felt
London-based German designer Jule Waibel has launched a collection of seats made from 100 per cent wool felt that has been three-dimensionally folded under steam to create flexible pleats (+...
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Second collection by Vík Prjónsdóttir
Icelandic design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir presented a collection of wool blankets at DesignMarch in Reykjavík last week. Above: SHIELD OF WINGS The Sea Eagle is the king of birds. With grace,...
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Jumper by Bertjan Pot
Milan 2010: here are some more pictures of Dutch designer Bertjan Pot's Jumper chair, launched by British brand Established & Sons in Milan last week. The design features a knitted cover, created...
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Wool Modern Installation by Not Tom
Designers Not Tom have created an installation where coloured dye rises by capillary action out of paint tins and along tree branches wrapped in wool. Dyed in The Wool is a collaboration between Not...
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Lasso Shoes by Gaspard Tiné-Berès at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate Gaspard Tiné-Berès has designed slippers made from just one piece of felt and a shoelace (+ movie). The slippers are delivered flat-packed and come with coloured laces...
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Nodi Contemporanei by Loredana Bonora
Product news: every table, chair, lamp and light switch in this furniture collection by Italian designer Loredana Bonora is covered in crocheted yarns of cotton, PVC, plastic tape and even washing...
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The Natural Blonde by Sister by Sibling
British fashion designers Sibling crocheted colourful flowers and giant accessories for their Autumn Winter 2013 womenswear collection shown during London Fashion Week. Renowned for knitwear, Sibling...
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Marcel Wanders designs air pollution masks with graphic prints for O2Today
Marcel Wanders has partnered with San Francisco company O2Today to release a set of air pollution masks made from patterned wool. According to the company, its mask is the world's first made from...
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AUW creates woolly walled pavilion in rural Hungary
Fleecy surfaces create a cosy setting inside this pavilion in western Hungary, which architecture studio AUW hope visitors will use as a space to host "therapy sessions with themselves". The Wool House...
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Christien Meindertsma exhibition explores the potential uses of four materials
Christien Meindertsma: Beyond the Surface, at the Vitra Design Museum in Basel examines the designer's work with wool, flax, incinerator ash and recycled wool. Video and printed matter demonstrating...
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ZigZagZurich use twisted yarns to create Bauhaus-inspired blankets
Swiss textiles brand ZigZagZurich produces a range of artist-designed blankets, including several influenced by Bauhaus design principles. Called Artist Wool Blankets, the colourful collection includes...
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Allbirds crafts shoes from renewable materials including wool and castor beans
Footwear brand Allbirds uses merino wool to manufacture the textile uppers of its Wool Runners shoes, which also feature laces made from recycled plastic bottles and insoles produced using castor bean...
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3D printing meets felt in new additive manufacturing technique
Acoustic panels and other architectural elements can be made in complex 3D forms using a robotic needle felting process developed by researchers at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban...
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Sebastian Wrong's modular rugs can be connected into an "endless field"
Sebastian Wrong has created a collection of rugs called the Wrong Angle series, that are designed to be layered in interconnected grids to frame a floor or furniture item. The four-piece "community of...
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The Lips by Sandra Keja Planken for Noun Amsterdam
Dezeen Showroom: Noun Amsterdam's colourful wall rugs called The Lips are designed by Sandra Keja Planken to add "depth, vibrancy and boldness" to interior spaces. The rugs are made from bright...
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Karl Lagerfeld's pet Choupette collaborates with LucyBalu on Swing cat bed
Animal furniture design company LucyBalu has collaborated with Choupette, the beloved pet of the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, on a hammock-style cat bed called Swing. Choupette, who is...
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