Friends of Handicraft and Designtorget

HV School – Towels for Designtorget

For more than 130 years, HV Skola on Djurgården in Stockholm has trained future artisans in textile craft techniques. 2019 was the third year in a row where textile students from the prestigious textile craft school were commissioned to develop products for Designtorget. Together with Designtorget, the Friends of Handcrafts care about products that last year after year. New for 2019 was that Klässbols Linneväveri was a partner.
For eight weeks, design students in the project “Collection in small-scale production” challenged traditional methods and textile materials. Based on Designtorget’s range, the students have developed their own towel design. The work consists of 11 new pattern images that are manufactured at the weaving mill in Klässbol 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 of Klässbols Linneväveri.

Students who participated (picture and name sequence is not correct):
Sigrid Daregård, Sofia Starborg, Julia Kåsjö, Jennie Jakobsson, Eva Mendel, Suha Ayal, Shamiran Adam, Lina Kac, Nini Maakestad, Norpan Magnus Eriksson and Lea Constan.

Read about the project on the Handarbetets Vänner Skola website

Or at Inredningsnyhter.se

HV Studio

Memory – bedspreads and pillows

Memory is woven in exclusive Italian linen thread at Klässbols Linneväveri. The textile is available in two qualities. One is jacquard woven, the other braided from satin-woven ribbons. Both qualities are designed by Ulrika Elovsson. The craftsmanship was carried out by HV Ateljé. Braiding a larger fabric from narrow ribbons may seem simple, but the technique is complicated. The precision work of masters and journeymen is reflected in the high quality of the final product. Both the jacquard and the woven ribbons have received a careful traditional finishing treatment at Klässbols Linneväveri. The textiles have been hand-washed in cold water and then cold-mangled. This slow and gentle process gives the textile a high-gloss and solid surface. “Two threads that cross each other are the starting point for the creation of all woven textiles; that is where my creative process begins,” says Ulrika Elovsson. "In the collaboration with Klässbols Linneväveri, I have wanted to reconnect with older textile traditions. With the help of different techniques, both high tech and low tech, I can speak different "languages" and tell different stories." In the picture you see Memory together with Norrlandskuddar and BADA bath towels.

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