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Rumor is a knitted upholstery by Bertjan Pot. Its design bridges the contrasting worlds of handcrafted textiles and the digital space to create landscapes of shifting colour and pattern intensity. It is the first knitted textile from Kvadrat Febrik made from more than 70% post-consumer recycled polyester, which creates its distinctive volume.

To design Rumor, Bertjan Pot converted an image into a set of randomly arranged pixels in four different colours, using the ‘diffusion dither’ tool on photo editing software. Subsequently, through a process of extensive, hands-on experimentation with colours and pattern scaling, he translated this design into a knitted textile.

Rumor comes in nine versatile colourways. From a distance, it appears more uniform and muted in colour, but get closer and irregular quantities of pixel-like stitches, in four contrasting colours, reveal themselves within the textile’s surface. These pixels are an integral part of the knitted design and are not added afterwards through dyeing.

The textile is particularly easy to upholster on all forms of furniture: Rumor offers excellent elasticity, and its irregular pattern infuses the design with an extra dimension of vibrancy and ensures it flows over edges to seamless effect. Rumor suits all contract and residential applications.

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