Collage Carpet
Home Textiles
Kiki x Tarkett – Collage Carpet I team up with carpet Company Tarkett, known for its innovative ‘cradle to cradle’ strategy. I have made a colour and material selection from their archive of DESSO carpet tiles. My goal is to make an outstanding, special carpet from industrially produced tiles used in the contract market. Cutting and gluing resulting in a collage is the starting point of this design. Working with Tarkett’s internal laser machine and recycled backing technique I found a whole new language within this project. Using all of the excess materials, which would otherwise be discarded after the lasering process, I create six different carpets from 1 design made of regenerated nylon yarn from recovered waste materials such as discarded fishing nets. ZERO WASTE! The carpet tiles have a DESSO EcoBase which is a Cradle to Cradle Gold-certified carpet tile backing. It is unique in the marketplace – designed from the outset with healthy materials. Every material used to make EcoBase can be safely used, recycled and given a new lease of life, protecting the environmental and human health. EcoBase can be fully recycled at Tarkett’s own facility, closing the loop. No waste, only nutrients for new EcoBase backings. The carpet is made of ECONYL®, a regenerated nylon yarn, made from recovered waste materials such as discarded fishing nets and carpet yarn from Tarkett’s recycling facility. Aquafil the producer of ECONYL is one of the founders of Healthy Seas, an initiative that aims to remove waste, in particular fishing nets for the purpose of creating healthier seas and recycling marine litter into 3/4 regenerated yarn, some of which is being used to produce the tiles this carpet is made of. Tarkett is one of the partners. Please note the attached design is just the paper sketch, see also the material samples. It will be produced within 3 weeks from now!