Alf was with the class on a study visit to Klässbols Linneväveri when he was eleven years old and in fifth grade.

When they got back to Liljenäs school, the teacher, Kerstin Walan, continued, “Who decides what pattern it should be?” And the whole class had to sit down and draw what they thought a towel should be. Of course it should be a hand, Alf thought. He drew his own hand on a small square sheet of paper in his notebook. He wrote “Title: The Towel” at the top and handed it in to the teacher. Then he didn’t think about it anymore until a week later when the phone rang at Alf’s house. Mom answered and when she said it was from the linen weaving factory.

On the other end of the line, it was said that the linen weaving factory had taken a liking to the pattern early on, but that it had been lying around for a number of years for various reasons. But Urban Johansson has finally taken up the idea again, redesigned it to fit a small towel, and started weaving it.

Alf Levin, at the age of 14, probably did not understand how big this would be because he can measure up to famous names such as Astrid Sampe who made the towel "Kökstrivsel" and Ingrid Dessau who made the Nobel cloth. Almost every day we receive requests from trained designers who want us to weave their patterns, but almost all of them are refused, says Urban Johansson. But Alf Levin didn't even have to ask.