Nearly 100,000 waste bottles were used in the creation of a rug from Jennifer Manners, destined for a project in Connecticut
Jennifer Manners has created what is believed to be the largest single-piece rug ever made from recycled materials. Made with 99,749 waste bottles – using the brand’s /Re/purpose Performance fibre, an industry game-changer – the ‘Antibes’ rug is 40m long and 2.4m wide, and destined for a residential project in Connecticut by the London-born, New York-city based interior designer Katie Lydon.
Months in the making, the rug was made in India by Jennifer Manners’ skilled teams. The finished product is not quite straight, and was instead cut to fit the elongated hallway’s curve, using a bespoke template. The whole process left no room for error, from dying the yarn to preparing the loom, to weaving and finishing.
With every rug made to order at Jennifer Manners, it means that custom adjustments are the norm, whether in colour, border designs or size. In this case, the giant nature of the order was far from the everyday.
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