What if we could use human hair to replace finite materials used in luxury design, such as wood, horn and tortoiseshell? A team of designers from Studio Swine decided to experiment with this idea. As you can see in the video above, they combined hair with a natural resin to create a moldable material. Then they used it to make home furnishings and accessories, such as combs. The hair creates a beautiful pattern that makes the material resemble polished horn or exotic hardwood. Although the material isn’t intended for mass production, the designers said it could be used on a mass scale. And that could mean a lot to countries like China, for example, which is one of the world’s biggest importers of tropical hardwood—and exporters of human hair.