The Dutch collective known as We Make Carpets have been creating rugs from all sorts of materials. Their latest venture: paper. Made up of artist Bob Waardenburg and designers MArcia Nolte and Stijin van der Vleuten, We Make CArpets has made intricately designed ones made out of pasta, candy bars, sponges, bottles and more.

The latest was developed as part of a residency at De Fabriek in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Waardenburg's group folded 20,000 letter sized A4 sheets of paper to cover 5,300 square feet of floor.

"The size and color of it was so entrancing," recalls Waardenburg. "When we looked at it, it looked so much like an icy lake that we had to remind ourselves that we had folded all of those papers over the course of a week ourselves. It was surreal."

The group created a carpet from pinecones, sunflowers, twigs, leaves, and patches of grass. Check out a few more below:





You can read more about We Make Carpets' work at the group's official site.