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Vollebak has created a wooden jacket prototype, a fashion piece with a hood made of flexible timber arranged in tiny grids. The wooden jacket is complete with zippers and two exterior pockets. There’s also a hood, also made of timber. From afar, the Vollebak prototype looks like a tree trunk or a freshly varnished plank. Sources: Design Boom, Timberbiz The design team captured the look of a tree’s growth rings all over the prototype. They also reposition the timber grids so that these natural wood lines are not uniform or don’t look all horizontal or vertical. So far, Vollebak’s Wooden Jacket is still a prototype. There’s no news yet on when it will launch The company says it went ahead with the experiment because turning a tree into a jacket is an absurdly difficult technical challenge. It’s all about the technical feat vs the performance advantage of the material. It builds innovation muscle as it’s just so hard. It’s the equivalent of Daniel-San and Mr Miyagi practising the crane kick on the beach in The Karate Kid with no opponent in sight The design team embeds the cut-up slabs of timber onto a fabric, which makes up the interior of the jacket. In this way, the clothing can freely move and isn’t stiff. On the breast part of the fashion piece, there are two semi-hidden zippers on both sides. They can be extra pockets for the users, just above the two ample exterior ones. Visible lines divide the Vollebak’s Wooden Jacket prototype. These allow for the material to bend and be flexible when the users move around and stretch. The design team has yet to unveil the technical details of the Wooden Jacket. So far, they say that the prototype is a way for them to tackle and then solve what would otherwise remain ‘completely theoretical.’