Swiss textiles brand ZigZagZurich produces a range of artist-designed blankets, including several influenced by Bauhaus design principles.
Called Artist Wool Blankets, the colourful collection includes designs by Mexico-based artist Daniel Barreto, Swiss-born interior architect and ZigZagZurich creative director Michele Rondelli, and recent Stuttgart Academy of Fine Art graduate Sophie Probst.
Artist Wool Blankets features several Bauhaus-influenced designs, including Gunta by Michele Rondelli and Sophie Probst
Woven in 100 per cent New Zealand wool in Scandinavia, the blankets are made using twisted yarns that give them blankets a unique multicolour effect ? which the brand likens to the effect of looking through a kaleidoscope.
"To weave the blankets we used two yarns with the same thickness but in the different colours," said ZigZagZurich. Bauhaused 4 features a gridded pattern in shades of pink, blue, yellow and brown
"The yarns are twisted together and then woven. The beauty that comes out of this artistic choice is a kaleidoscopic game of colours and the creation, at the same time, of a pattern which cannot be controlled," it explained.
"If you twist for example a yellow yarn and a red yarn you will get a melange yarn that once woven gives to the fabric a unique effect - melange - that cannot be decided as it's an abstract mix of colours."
Bauhaused 3 features bold geometric blocks of colour
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ...