Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Floor Skrabanja has created a collection of seats made from a single piece of 3D-knitted upholstery that needs no gluing or stitching, so can easily be deconstructed.
The series features a chair, stool and bench, each covered with a seamless, continuous piece of fabric that is slipped on like a sleeve and bound to the frame with a contrasting orange cord.
The upholstery fabric is 3D-knitted ? a fabrication method which combines digital pattern-making with the knitting process. The process replicates 3D printing's ability to scale and multiply a pattern, in order to create complex designs at specified sizes.
The knitted yarns that make up the fabric can be unraveled in order for the threads to be re-knitted as another piece of furniture in future.
"Like with 3D printing, you code a shape on the computer and then you can reproduce it endlessly," Skrabanja told Dezeen.
"The difference is that a 3D printing filament is heated and will melt together so you get a solid shape composed of layers. With 3D knitting you bond with the yarn."
"The traditional limitations of knitting are challenged by the new technology," she continued. "Textiles are mostly used and made in two-dimensional surfaces, but with this knitting technique you can rethink textiles as a three-dimensional shape."

The technique can be scaled up to cover entire furniture pieces, as well as to make clothes or blankets.
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