Apres August - Flipbook - Page 8
FEATURE
MOSS
CUTTING THE MOSS-TARD:
LITTLE CUBES FOR BIG IDEAS
The highly porous structure allows for an
exceptional sound absorption ability across a
wide frequency range.
Picture a Scandinavian forest. Lichen
covered birch, alder, aspens. Maybe
some young juniper bushes nearer
the ground and a brook babbling in
the foreground.
A majestic reindeer bull saunters in
from the right. His footfalls masked
by the very moss he now greedily
munches on.
Mind you, you can’t hear much at
all, not the footfalls, not the chewing
- hardly even the susurration of the
stream.
Such is the acoustic properties of
Scandinavian Reindeer Moss.
The lichen – or moss as we know it
– has been used by Scandinavians
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