Textile brand Kirkby Design has collaborated with Transport for London to recreate seven heritage moquette designs featured on the city's Underground tube seats.
The Underground Vol. II collection saw Kirkby adapt the scale and colour of various designs found in the London Transport Museum archives to create a series of velvet upholstery fabrics patterned with geometric graphics.

The moquette designs that Kirkby chose to draw upon in the archive come from the 1930s through to the present day.
Derived from the French word for carpet, the term moquette is used to describe a hardwearing woollen fabric made using the jacquard weaving technique.
Famous for being used across London's transport network, the fabric was first applied to the city's public transport seating in the 1920s, and soon after became popular in home furnishings.
After being struck on his commute by the bold design of the tube seating "in a way that he had never previously noticed", Kirkby's creative director Jordan Mould decided to approach Transport for London (TfL) to start the project.

The resulting collection saw the studio rework previous and current designs used on London Underground tube lines from the past 90 years.
These include the Northern, Hammersmith, Central, Metropolitan, Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines. The brand also adapted the Pullman design first seen on London trams during the 1930s.

"London Underground is an iconic symbol of British culture," said Mould. "To be...