Old Suit, New Bedding

Ever wondered just what to do with all old and no longer worn suits?
Variegated, a Hudson Valley arts studio who specialise in textiles have designed and created a range of bedding using men’s suits fabrics, a modern twist on patchwork!

Each bedding set consists of a duvet cover, a pair of pillow cases and a bedcover. As the sets are made up solely of old fabrics they can only make as many bed sets as suits they can collect, the great thing about recycling this way is each set has its own unique colour and styles of fabrics used.

The bold patchworks make these sets ideal for a bachelor pad with the deep greys, blues and black fabrics skilfully blended to give a trendy look. The variations in the fabric’s and lining textures adds interest as well as making these bed sets very tactile, although I’m a little puzzled as to laundering with most suits ‘dry clean only’ I wonder if the sets can be thrown into the washing machine and drier?

These sets are not for the faint hearted price wise, with limited resources at present each set costs in excess of three thousand pounds, however, I feel that once the word and concept gets around there may be a few thrifty people about who will be popping along to old fashioned jumble sales or charity stores to snap up some out-dated suits and re-vamp them into their own versions of these chic bed sets.

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