Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 8:48AM Cut from the same cloth
You may remember our previous entry about Magnolia Editions’ re-invention of the tapestry. Well, Mararten Baas from the Netherlands has created something cut from similar cloth. To coincide with Remembrance Day on May 4th, his piece called 780.559 is a 190 foot-long tablecloth containing the names of each resident of the country. All 780,559 of them. Associate Bertjan Pot engineered the project, developing a custom font called Font of the Loom, which allowed the names to be woven on the fly. For more wefting action, check out the making of video. 780.559 is now living in the Amsterdam Museum. Thanks to Co.Design for the heads up.



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