HV School – towels for Designtorget
For more than 130 years, HV Skola at Djurgården in Stockholm has trained the artisans of the future in textile craftsmanship. 2019 was the third year in a row where textile students from the ancient textile craft school were commissioned to produce products for Designtorget. In collaboration with Designtorget, Handmade’s Friends protect products that last year after year. New for 2019 was that Klässbol’s Linneväveri was a partner.
For eight weeks, design students in the project “Collection in small-scale production” challenged traditional methods and textile materials. On the basis of the Design Square assortment, the students have developed their own towel design. The work consists of 11 new pattern images that are manufactured at the Klässbol weaving plant and launched at Designtorget in limited exclusive editions.
– We see working with Sweden’s leading textile and design schools as exciting, positive and challenging. An important strategy for finding future clients and customers. Doing it together with Designtorget makes it even more perfect! Says Andreas Johansson, CEO / Klässbols
Contributing designers/students (picture and name disorder):
Sigrid Daregård, Sofia Starborg, Julia Kåsjö, Jennie Jakobsson, Eva Mendel, Suha Ayal, Shamiran Adam, Lina Kac, Nini Maakestad, Norpan Magnus Eriksson and Lea Constan.
You can read about the project (in Swedish) at Textile handicraft school – Friends of Handicraft School (HV School) website.
Or at Inredningsnyhter.se
HV Studio
Memory – bedspread and pillows
Memory is woven in exclusive Italian linen wire at Klässbols Linneväveri. The textile is available in two qualities. One is jaquard-woven, the other is made of satin-woven bands. Both grades are designed by Ulrika Elovsson. The craft was carried out by HV Ateljé. Joining a larger fabric of narrow bands may seem simple, but the technique is complicated. The precision work of masters and collectors is reflected in the high quality of the final product. Both the jaquard and the woven bands have been carefully treated after Klässbols Linneväveri. The textiles have been hand washed in cold water and then cold mined. This slow and gentle process gives the textile a high gloss and solid surface. “Two threads crossing each other are the starting points for all the woven textiles’ arrival, where my creative process begins,” says Ulrika Elovsson. “In collaboration with Klässbols Linneväveri, I have wanted to relate to older textile traditions. With the help of different technologies, both high tech and low tech, I can speak different languages and tell different stories.” On the picture you see Memory together with Norrland pillows and BADA towels.
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