Moss, I’m not quite sure what to make of it… Growing up moss was never addressed as anything good in our household. In fact I think we knew rather little about it. All that ever crossed our minds was how moss is that disgusting slimy green stuff that grows on tiled rooftops becoming quite the nuisance when they break off clogging up the piping…
All in all I can appreciate when moss really grows and covers a surface, from afar it can look quite to be a magnificent green sight, but up close it just brings about an icky feeling.
However, moss like many other things in life are viewed or should I say appreciated by different people in different ways. As a matter of fact, at a point in time – the 19th century to be precise, moss gained such popularity amongst the good garden looking folks, that mosseries were practically popping up in many British and American gardens.
Practically moss has lots of uses and that said it’s worth mentioning that different species serves a wide variety of purposes – all the way from as a source of fuel to wound dressing!
But now there are even more creative use for moss, some that I think are delightful, others that I rather doubt their feasibility.
Now I’m sure we’ve all attended our fair share of weddings so when I say moss monograms it would probably ring a bell…those green letters covered with moss, hung over the door, decorated with ribbons, adding that element of classic beauty to a green themed wedding? Well you might have seen them, or you might not but either way moss covered letters aren’t very new to the market.
However taking that a notch up is CURB, the world’s first natural media company. They specialise in offering a range of highly effective media solutions that only uses natural earth elements – moss being one of them. Originally when I saw one of their designs, an extremely detailed messages and motifs made out entirely of moss on a wall, I thought to myself how in the world someone could have the patience/talent to let/make moss grow so evenly all over the wall then ‘shave’ it into shapes and letters and the moss-less background seemed so clean!
Eventually after my curiosity got the best of me, I found out that Anna Garforth of Cross Hatchling (apologies to Anna for miscrediting CURB with her idea) was behind the ingenious idea (for once moss on a wall looked fantastic!) and they didn’t shave the shapes out of a moss over-grown wall. Instead they affixed the moss letters there with an all-natural material (trade secret so I don’t know what it is). Honestly this moss art, I like…it’s really neat!
But La Chanh Nguyen has a different approach to decorating with moss. She’s a green artist who created the moss bath mat, a really forefront idea too if I might add. The moss bath mat is constructed out of plastazote which is a kind of imputrescible foam. Shaped much like egg cartons, the plastazote houses the moss (ball moss, Island moss, forest moss) so you end up with a little green forest at your feet. Well maybe it’s just me and I know moss has antibacterial properties but I just can’t quite fathom the idea of stepping out of the bath, all squeaky clean onto a bed of green moss…
That ingenious moss lettering came from Anna Garforth, an artist commissioned by Curb.
http://www.crosshatchling.co.uk
Hello, could you please change the below info, or credit Anna Garforth to the moss,
Eventually after my curiosity got the best of me, I found out that CURB was behind the ingenious idea (for once moss on a wall looked fantastic!)
I was one of Curb Media’s artists, (the moss artist.) Until they used my idea, without asking me for a job I was unable to do. The last thing i want is their name behind MY work.
Could you please change the credit asap to Anna Garforth, http://www.crosshathling.co.uk
Thank you