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Sophie Aschauer has been fascinated by puzzles since she was a child. But it wasn’t until she picked up a book of sailor’s knots last year on a trip to Nantucket, Mass., that she put this interest to any practical use. “I was mesmerized,” says Aschauer Replica Jury Sunglasses, a New York-based, Austrian-born graduate of Central Saint Martins, who designs under the label SerpentSea. “Right away, I knew I was going to make them into mats.” Each of her small but weighty rugs incorporates about 150 feet of repurposed nautical and mountaineering rope, which she coaxes into intricate patterns that loop and twine like baroque infinity symbols. The hands-on process takes about four hours per rug; devising the patterns can take considerably longer. She has three models available Replica Scalpel Sunglasses, all named for famous pirates — Drake, Bonny and Morgan — and a larger area rug is in the works. “People love them as bathmats,” Aschauer says. “They feel very nice under bare feet.”

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Editors' Note: March 27, 2012

This story is from the Spring Issue of T Design, on newsstands on April 1. Aschauer now has four models, Killigrew cheap jerseys for sale, Drake, Bonny and Morgan.