Woven Soil - Second Iteration

This was my second attempt at creating a plantable fabric.
Click Here for the First Attempt.

Strong NZ wool, pumice and steel mesh are woven and quilted together, creating a plantable soil that can bend, drape and stretch. As the wool and caught leaf litter break down into a fertile compost, the steel, pumice, mycelium and roots form a resilient living fabric with all the complexities of soil.

Wool as Leaf Litter.
Pumice as Soil Particles.
Steel as Bedrock.

This iteration of a plantable fabric genuinely worked...

... But it didn't work great.

Everything but the succulents couldn't survive in the fabric. And while it's still wonderful to see the succulents live, it wasn't what I envisioned for the fabric. Design alone was not enough to develop this idea.

I needed a new apprach, and so I made my third and final attempt at a Woven Soil.

3^rd of April 2023

Other Projects

2024

• Woven Soil

  

• Where's Walko?

  

• Humans and "Predator Free"

  

• A Love-Letter to Gorse

  

2023

• Open Water

  

• Tipuna Mokopuna

  

• Now is Drawn by the Past

  

2022

• Through Their Eyes

  

• How to Mend with Stabbing

  

• Queer Aesthetics

  

• Joy in Weave

  

• Living Buildings
  Then and Now

  

• Artefacts

  

• Willow the Wisp

  

2021

• Woven Soil
  First Iteration

  

• Whakamaurutanga

  

• A Walk to the Library

  

• Under The Sky

  

2018

• Vile

  

2017

• Cœur De Pirate
  Portrait

  

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