Dezeen Showroom: rug brand Azmas Rugs has adapted an artwork by computer scientist Michael Rowan into the Shapeshifter rug, which has an evolving pattern of tiles.

The Shapeshifter rug was also partly informed by artist MC Escher's Metamorphosis prints, in which animal forms emerge from rigid geometric patterns and architecture professor William Huff's Parquet Deformations – a drafting exercise requiring the creation of evolving tesselations.

Similarly, Rowan's "math art", created by code in the software PostScript, features a pattern of two interlocking tiles that change in shape.

Azmas Rugs founder Azmi Merican wrote to Rowan for permission to adapt his artwork into a rug, which was then produced by weavers working by hand on looms in Rajasthan, India.

Merican chose a flatweave structure to best show the sharp lines of the pattern and applied a gradient of colours to further add to the sense of movement.

The Shapeshifter rug is part of Azmas Rugs' Evolving Patterns collection. It is woven in cotton but editions are possible in bamboo silk, a cotton-bamboo mix, silk or recycled PET.

Product: Shapeshifter
Designer: Michael Rowan
Brand: Azmas Rugs
Contact: [email protected]

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