sea me collection

By Staff Writer

1 December 2016

Netherlands-based designer Nienke Hoogvliet is using seaweed to make rather elegant (and sustainable) home textiles.

Nienke Hoogvliet is using seaweed to make rather elegant (and sustainable) home textiles. Her first seaweed-based creation was Sea Me – a rug she made from sea algae yarn, knotted by hand in an old fishing net (pictured just below). Since then, the Netherlands-based designer has continued exploring how one can use seaweed. For her Sea Me collection, which includes a table and chair, Nienke made chair seating from seaweed yarn and dyed the eco-friendly fabric with seaweed, too. Turns out seaweed generates manifold colours of dye: greens, browns, greys, and even pinks and purples. Who’d have thought it? To find out more, head over to Nienke’s website.