Rumor is a new knitted upholstery textile for Kvadrat Febrik. It is the first to be made from more than 70% post-consumer recycled polyester, which creates its’ distinctive volume. The textile comes in nine color ways. From a distance they appear more muted and uniform in color. But it’s all about perspective.
If you zoom into Rumor, you will see stitches in four different colors from across the spectrum. To create these stitches, I used a digital tool to convert an image into a set of randomly arranged pixels in irregular quantities across the textile’s surface. Then, through hands-on experimentation with colors and pattern scaling I translated this design into a knitted textile. By placing these contrasting colors close together, the final color is much deeper and vivid than the single color could be by itself.
