Uber Cool Quilt!

Haptic Lab features this post today. I love quilts - still have one my grandmother made by hand and cherish it. One of my dear friends, Harriet, can quilt like nobody's business, making awesomely beautiful pieces in all sorts of styles. I'm going to have to show her this one. It's so fresh and modern looking and yet could be filled with memories of places in the past. Awesome!

Soft-Maps are handmade quilted maps of Brooklyn neighborhoods and parks that represent your unique place in the city. These heirlooms are meant to be used: wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during the next Nor'easter. Not only beautiful, these blankets can be used as a mnemonic tool. As your child grows up with a Soft Map, they learn to read their neighborhood and its landmarks in a tactile, easily remembered way.

Each map is embellished with hand-embroidered street names, compass rose, and scale marker. Upon request, the Lab will detail the house or apartment you live in, your metro stops, your favorite coffee shop, the school your child goes to, or any other place in your neighborhood that has sentimental significance to you. It is important that each quilt be unique to its owner, just as a neighborhood is unique to each of its denizens.

Most Soft-Maps are made with dupioni silk, a sturdy multi-dimensional fabric that is easily dry-cleaned; the warm interlayer is organic cotton. Custom Soft-Maps can be designed for you for an added fee and can be constructed at any scale: the small town you grew up in, the city or country you're lonely for, or the college campus where you met your mate.

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