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Artsy Star Wars Rugs or Walking Carpet?

In an age where Star Wars is turned into everything, from action figures to art work to, occasionally, waffle makers, sometimes you have to try and stand out and look “respectable” while selling your galaxy far, far away-branded nonsense. Case in point: Ruggables’ new classy take on turning your love of Star Wars into something…

These Traditional-Style Afghani Rugs Were Inspired By Modern Warfare

Contemporary art is sometimes bizarre, but images of weapons appearing on traditional Afghani rugs may be the strangest change in modern art. The tradition was started during the Soviet occupation started in 1979, and these items are still made by most of the local ethnic groups. After the US invasion of Afghanistan and the fall…

Walk All Over a Wookiee With a Chewbacca Rug

It’s been said it’s not wise to upset a Wookiee, but turning one of them into a rug, how could that possibly go wrong? You won’t find a more luxurious pelt in the galaxy, and unlike that gleaming white Wampa fur, you can spill all the Juri juice you want on this Chewbacca rug and…

Schönstaub’s astronomy rugs using Hubble Space Telescope images are back, and this time the company has a new line of astronomy towels, too.

Use These Optical Illusion Rugs to Mess With Your Guests’ Heads

Some decorating decisions are made for reasons of beauty. Some for a specific taste. And others are made because the homeowner’s a sadist who enjoys fucking with people’s heads. Here are some lovely floor options. The top image is from a Panasonic ad campaign, showing the bugs and dust and everything else that lurks on…

Rugs That Look Like the Earth As Seen From Your Window Seat

There’s something about seeing the developed world from 20,000 or so feet that’s absolutely mesmerizing—like a fascinating map you can’t stop poring over, despite knowing it by heart. Architect Florian Pucher has taken those magical views and recreated them as hand-tufted wool rugs. “I have always been inspired by watching the landscape go by when…

That’s No Moon or Space Station, Just a Fantastic Death Star Rug

What’s this? A piece of Star Wars-themed decor that doesn’t look like a grade eight craft project? There’s a chance that folks who’ve never even seen Star Wars might actually want this Death Star rug in their living room, since its asymmetrical design doesn’t scream ‘science fiction movie prop’. Totem has certainly done a wonderful…

You Can Now Own Your Very Own Overlook Hotel Rug From The Shining

You can also get a matching scarf, ski cap, and sweater. The folks at Mondo are coming out with an entire collection of gear inspired by the mesmerizing pattern on the carpet from The Shining’s Overlook Hotel. You can preorder your Overlook doormat, cardigan, or area rug now and give anyone who gazes upon them…

This Rug Encases Han Solo in Carbonite On Your Living Room Floor

Is your living room floor bare? Do you like optical illusions? Do you love Star Wars? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’ll definitely love this floor runner depicting Han Solo stuck in carbonate. This officially-licensed floor runner is just the right size for a hallway or a spot beneath your coffee…

Turn Google Earth Images Into All-Terrain Area Rugs

We’ve seen rugs that let you cruise through the cosmos in your slippers, but these lovely floor coverings take a more terrestrial approach. Each of the one-meter-square samples is hand-tufted to depict a small glimpse of the world as viewed from Google Earth. Portugal, 2013 It’s a beautiful concept in itself—the idea that we could…

Skywalk Through Outer Space With These Celestial Carpets

Hey hey stargazers and celestial daydreamers: Here’s your chance to walk barefoot above the heavens. Spacecrafted is a new collection of rugs from German designer Jan Kath that takes hi-res satellite images of the great beyond and turn them into super detailed wool and silk patterns. At first glance, the designs are tough to make…

Memory Rug Puts a PC’s Guts On Your Floor

Had the Persian Empire had access to modern electronics, particularly the intricately etched circuit boards found in most devices, their famous woven rug designs might have ended up looking more like Lukas Scherrer’s Memory Rug. Made from multiple layers of felt so it’s more comfortable under foot than silicon and solder, the rug is adorned…

These Eye-Popping Rugs Are Actually Perfectly Flat

These rugs, which depict the five senses of touch, smell, sight, taste and hearing, seem to leap out as three-dimensional shapes as you look at them. Weirdly, though, they are in fact perfectly flat. The designs were created using a wireframe 3D model of the human body, and then translated onto the 2D surface of…

A trophy hunter gets a hold of Elmo, Kermit, and the Abominable Snowman — and starts making rugs

You might want to avert your eyes if the thought of any harm coming to the beloved Muppet and claymation characters of childhood. Redditor Wizzer2801 posted these “horribly cute” creations his wife has been stitching up, and promises there’s a store in the works. I hope they get it online soon, because my floor could…

Temperature Sensitive Rug Changes Colors To Match the Seasons

When you decorate a room you’re stuck with a single color palette all year round that doesn’t necessarily reflect the changing seasons outside. So maybe we should look to Siren Elise Wilhelmsen’s color-changing rug for inspiration on designing a room that reflects, or contrasts, the temperatures outside. Wilhelmsen refers to her Season Carpet as a…

Make your guests ill with a nausea-inducing floor rug

Under the right circumstances, a home furnishing has the power to make visitors green around the gills. Such is the findings of a recent paper published in the journal Perception, “The sickening rug: a repeating static pattern that leads to motion-sickness-like symptoms.” In this study, researchers from Saint Peter’s College discovered a particular carpet that…

You Can Actually Turn Your DNA Into Houseware Decors

It’s one thing to put your own personal touch into the appearance of your home. But basing your household aesthetic around your own unique DNA signature takes that idea up more than a few notches. DNA11 wants to take the visual representation of your DNA and print it up on rugs, bowls, prints, wallpapers and…

Walk All Over Major Cities Without Leaving Your Family Room with Google Maps Area Rugs

Who has tim to actually visit places anymore? Not me. Too much stuff to do that doesn’t involve curiosity or exercise. That’s why these Google Maps “Worldwide Carpets” area rugs are so perfect. There’s L.A., or Vegas, or anywhere really. It’s all based on bird’s eye satellite imagery culled form Google Maps, which designer David…

Topographical Carpet Must Be Mine, My Toes Decree It

Imagine a vast kingdom of rolling hills and rippling tides, cast in soothing shades of green, blue, and yellow. A kingdom that is soft and squishy. A kingdom in which the only doctrine is the Divine Right of Toes. It took the help of 30 friends for Laurens van Wieringen to construct this magical place—a…

Stop Zooming In On My Rug! It’s Already Pixelated

While pixelated images make me cringe, I think that the playful pattern of this wool rug is absolutely lovely. Prices are only available on request and the matching pillows are unfortunately sold separately. [Nanimarquina via BLTD via Unplggd]