Brightly Colored Rope Masks Born from Happy Accidents by Bertjan

During a material experiment, Dutch designer Bertjan Pot, along with his fellow designer Vladi Rapaport, discovered a technique for stitching together lengths of brightly colored rope to create interesting face masks. Though reminiscent of tribal masks and seemingly full of meaning and individual narratives, Pot says that the faces came from a less-than-successful attempt at making rugs. When trying to turn the rope into rugs, Pot found that the material would not stay flat. More

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Brightly Colored Rope Masks Born from Happy Accidents by Bertjan

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