Tree Bark
The skin of a tree is an unlikely starting place for new materials, but as we cast an ever-widening net from which to harvest nature’s ingredients we discover new ways of using existing materials, such as tree bark, in contemporary design. This spicy alternative to traditional woven textiles has a texture and crunchy feeling that lies somewhere between paper, leather and a piece of linen. With this type of material, the key to understanding it lies in the production, which is based on the same multilevel considerations as harvesting any natural product.
The bark used as a panel in these Vimaga shoes is by BarkTex® and is harvested from the inner bark of the Mutaba tree on eco-certified farms in Uganda. It is a raffia fleece without ...
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