Unnecessary Inventions (Matty Benedetto): tufting gun rugs and a Pantone rug, Vermont

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Made by: Matty Benedetto (Unnecessary Inventions)
Date: 2020s
Place: Vermont
Themes: Companies & modern tufting, Hand-tufting tools & the gun

View at the source Cited in chapter 13, note 42

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Unnecessary Inventions, "The Rug Making Tutorial"; Retail Brew, 6 Feb 2024; Wikipedia, "Matty Benedetto". unnecessaryinventions.com/tufting-gun-tutorial.

Research notes

Unnecessary Inventions is the Vermont designer Matty Benedetto's studio of satirical products that solve problems nobody has, documented in videos on social media (Wikipedia; Seven Days; The Hustle). Its website has a rug-making tutorial on making custom rugs with a tufting gun, including a rug of his Gator Grips (unnecessaryinventions.com/tufting-gun-tutorial), and it has sold rugs such as the ZuckerRug, a bath mat. His 50-foot CVS receipt rug (January 2024) was reproduced by a manufacturer in China from a scan, not tufted in the studio (Retail Brew). A summary of his X account (@mattyxb) mentions a studio rug based on his Pantone colour charts. Instagram: @unnecessaryinventions, the account where Benedetto built his audience after starting in 2019 (search summaries of press coverage; one article counted more than 117,000 followers); the handle was confirmed by the author on 31 Oct 2026. Research note (Oct 2026): from search results; pages not opened.