dalaclogs & förklädet

Here are products from two more Swedish online stores, dalaclogs and förklädet. Both websites are in Swedish but I am pretty sure that dalaclogs offers very funky handmade clogs, (I am so loving these moose clogs) and Förklädet offers headscarves and aprons in fun , colorful organic cotton prints. So sweet.

happysthlm

Happysthlm is a Swedish design company founded by three talented artisans, Katarina Andersson, product designer, Kasja Aronsson, textile designer, and Caroline Lindholm, siversmith. Their textiles are printed in Sweden and their products are all manufactured there. Here is a small sampling of their beautiful textile products but there is more more to see here on their website.

melly & me patterns

New patterns from the Australian based company Melly & Me have arrived. I love their charming, sassy designs. They can be found here.

tilda

I love these fabrics from Tone Finnanger's Tilda collection. They can now be found by volksfaden here.

westfalenstoffe

Westfalenstoffe opened their doors 75 years ago in Münster, Germany and are still there to this day. Their small prints are are based on traditional folk art designs and all of their printed fabrics are certified Öko-Tex-Standard 100. This means that the dyes used for the printing process are heavy metal and azoic free and the fabric has been treated and bleached without the use of chlorine and formaldehyde. Volksfaden has had fabrics from their organic cotton collection but I just recently added these tradtional Westfalen prints.

corita rose

Corita Rose designs fab patterned fabrics and creates very unique furniture and furnishings using these fabrics. All of their products are fabricated in England. Love the prints and the colors and the Lorenzo "the magnificent" print and......

flagge zeigen

Some of you may not know this but today is a national holiday here in Germany "Tag der Deutschen Einheit" (Day of German Unity) and on this national holiday I thought it would be interesting to mention a flag exhibit that opened here in Berlin on Oct. 1. Here is a description that can be found on the farbwerte website:

"For this exhibition, a host of designers and artists were given the task of incorporating the German flag into artworks, thereby using this public object as a medium to illustrate a personal story or point of view. The resulting designs, photographs, illustrations, paintings and more provide a timely means of reflection in a year when Germany marks 60 years of the Bundesrepublik and 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall."

"Die Bearbeitung der deutschen Flagge durch Designer und Künstler ist das erste Farbwerte-Projekt.

In diesem Projekt geht es um persönliche Positionen und die verschiedenen Blickwinkel auf Deutschland. Auch die kritischen. Bei der Umsetzung ist der Einsatz von allen Medien möglich. Von Fashion bis Illustration und von Produktdesign bis Fotografie. Einzige Konstante bei den Arbeiten: Die deutsche Flagge muss verwendet werden. Dabei kann die Flagge komplett, oder auch in Teilen verarbeitet werden. Andere Materialen können ergänzt werden. Der Creative Director und Projektentwickler Robert Eysoldt hat dafür weltweit über 60 Designer aufgefordert, sich künstlerisch mit der schwarz-rot-goldenen Flagge auseinander zu setzen. Insgesamt werden in der Ausstellung ca. 100 Exponate und Fotografien präsentiert."

I think it sounds really interesting and thought provoking and hope to find the time to see it next week.

Info: farbwerte:com