Self-woven fabrics
I weave several of my fabrics myself. I make those fabrics from scratch, either in my hand loom or in my mechanical shuttle loom from the 1950s. My passion for weaving when I found it, was so strong that I got my own old mechanical industry loom, to be able to weave more rationally but still a very small-scale production. With old-school engineering, mechanic that consists of gears and cast iron, punched card and leather, threads are tied together in different patterns, weft by weft. And become a fabric that slowly grows.
Natural materials
The materials in my self-woven fabrics are organic cotton, linen, organic linen and wool. The origin of the yarn is organic cotton yarn from Peru by Bergman/Rivera, linen yarn by Linificio, Italy and wool yarn from Filtmakeriet in Sweden. I always strive to get hold of as good yarn and material as I can.
Purchased fabrics
For my shirts and shirt dresses I am using either GOTS-certified organic cotton fabrics or so-called dead-stock fabric, fabrics left over from other companies’ productions. I also currently use a viscose fabric as lining.