British designer Ross Lovegrove has used suede-like fabric to create a huge serpentine sculpture in one of the V&A's tapestry galleries, as part of this year's London Design Festival.

Lovegrove drew inspiration from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, a series of four huge artworks created in the 15th century, to create his 21.3-metre-long installation, called Transmission.
The winding sculpture, which could also be likened to an intestine, was designed to exactly match the colours of the medieval tapestries.

"These tapestries were begun in 1425, the time of the Renaissance in Europe, when incredible things were made, and all through mainly craft-based skills," Lovegrove told Dezeen.
"I think this is a forgotten art form," he continued. "So, in respect to these tapestries that I really love, I haven't come in her with all guns blazing, to do something modern or alien. I've tried to do something that fits not only the room but the tapestries."
Lovegrove worked with Alcantara, a suede-like fabric produced from a combination of polyester and polyurethane, to create the form.
Using digital scanning software, his team were able to exactly match the colours of the fabric to those of the tapestries. They also used gold and silver threads to add over two million points of embroidery, so the sculpture glistens as it catches the light.

"These tapestries have been reduced to just two main colours through the pigmentation that they used...