AN Island business is proving it is cut from a different cloth by using locally sourced, reclaimed materials to create yurts.
I Love Wight Yurt was set up by Jim Hazell and Paul Westall, who build all the structures, which are inspired by the central Asian tents, themselves.
Both full-time electricians, the pair make the yurts using a design created by Mr Westall, working in their spare time.
The first finished yurt was the Daddy, which has a 12.5-metre diameter and is five metres tall at its highest point.
It is big enough to seat 110 people at tables and has already been used for a yoga event and is due to be used later this year for a wedding.
The frames were created with wood originally due to be used by wind energy business Vestas during its turbine blade production. When the company ended most of its production on the Island, the wood was donated to the two men.
The pair have almost completed a smaller version, Mummy, and there are plans to then work on even smaller versions, or Big Babies. They have also created a system to link several structures.
"It has been a lot of work. We are both full-time electricians, which means we had to work on the yurts for a couple of hours every morning and at weekends.
"We had to buy a specialist sewing machine to do all the stitching but the work has been worth it," said Mr Hazell.
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