Underfoot Tableware: Coasters, tablemats and placemats from carpet offcuts [Alpha prototype]

Tesselating geometric placemats, tablemats and coasters from carpet offcuts. Template file for download contains source for one of each. Designed for maximum material efficiency from carpet offcuts.

Spruce Carpets, a Glasgow company that renovates carpet recently fitted a new one in my flat. Unfortunately, they can't reclaim the offcuts as there is not much of a market for them: mainly only as weed suppressing mats. I am also sick of seeing carpets left to rot in the street. So I am setting about creating a range of products making use of this under appreciated material.

Hope you like it - of course, any shapes that you can cut are possible, so get your imagination in gear and be sure to post any developments in the comments.

Zero-waste Design

Step 1 What you need.

Tools:
Sharp Stanley knife, straight edge, sewing machine, marker pen and cutting surface. Either a printer or a ruler and angle measurer.

Materials:
Upholstery thread, offcuts of felt backed acrylic carpet. Cardboard or plastic sheet(1mm to 3mm thick) for template.

Skills
cutting with a knife, operating a sewing machine.

Alternatively, the carpet may be waterjet cut. Economically, this is probably only appropriate for quantities exceeding 1000. EPS template requires editing and checking for this application.

Comments

[GorillazMiko]

cool ;-)