For a few months we have had the pleasure of having student Sophie Jungkvist from the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås with us during her internship. To get close to nature, she, like some of our other prominent designers and employees, has lived at the linen weaving mill's härbre Åsen, which is located on the shore of Glafsfjorden. Sophie, who grew up in Stockholm, has also trained at HV-Textil, and you can immediately tell that she thinks outside the box. She tests new ways and materials in combination with linen to develop new products and new areas of use.

When Sophie showed us what she had been working on with us, we almost dropped our jaws. Three-dimensional structure, for example a pleat that can be pulled in and out, products that change appearance and function depending on the position in which you have it.

- I have used different woven folds, elastic yarns and sometimes woven several layers in double weave to create complex 3D structures. But even a simpler structure with floats can create a fabric in two layers that are partly woven together and partly can be pulled apart. Everything that is possible to weave in a jacquard weave, and with linen in warp and weft, where its stiffness works so well to create volume. If you can change the light penetration, visible colors and transparency, the textile would be suitable as a curtain or a room divider, and if you give it a three-dimensional structure, it also has good sound-absorbing abilities. The same room could be changed as desired depending on how you adjust the fabric, says Sophie.

The textiles can be viewed in Klässbol in smaller sections.