New from Ilse Crawford, for rug company Kasthall: Grönska, a collection of five rugs inspired by the landscape around Kasthall’s workshops in Kinna, Sweden, with patterns and hues meant to evoke the country’s terrain across the seasons.
The small collection includes three hand-woven rugs and two hand-tufted rugs in total, one of which is a limited-edition.
“This gives the appearance of earth and fields that have just been ploughed,” Kasthall says.
Above L: Åker is the limited-edition rug (each numbered 1-50, like a fine art print) with a variety of tuft styles across its stripes, meant to evoke the farmland around the Kasthall factory.
Above R: The Täppa rug, available in four colors, is hand-tufted, with wool creating the rich background and linen threads that create a pattern that “like seedlings that have just sprouted.”
A “thin and light” rug, Äng, is hand-woven with over-dyed yarns (specially designed for the collection) and contrasting lines of chenille, “to bring subtle depth and variations in color like those found within the fields and meadows of Sweden,” the company says.
Hand woven in a thick chenille yarn Glänta is woven in such a way that it reveals the structure of the weft yarn beneath to give the rug a beautiful irregularity and the impression...
...of light flecks of earth peeking out from within a glade It s available in a wide spectrum of hues from cool grey Februari to a brighter Juni shown to almost black Oktober and December
: The collection debuted at Milan Design Week last month.
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