A runner can serve many purposes. It’s magnificent in its simplicity for daily use, arranged cross-wise on your breakfast, lunch or dinner table, or why not as a highlight on your chest of drawers or coffee table. Use two or three across the table instead of place mats or just have one running down the centre, either way these beautiful runners look stunning however they are used.
Rutig Strandråg (“Chequered Lyme Grass”) is one of the first patterns designed by Ingela Berntsson.
Whether a little dishcloth or an ornate table-cloth, everything created by Ingela Berntsson radiates quality and care. When Ingela has developed a weave and a pattern at home on her loom, she then proceeds to wash, mangle, wrinkle, dirty and rewash it. If it measures up, then Växbo Lin takes the design and weaves a full-scale prototype. If it still meets Ingela’s standards, the cloth is put into production to be made into tablecloths, curtains, napkins or perhaps even a dishcloth in tastefully colored linen.
Växbo Lin are the only remaining spinnery and weavers of linen in Scandinavia. They operate their small-scale factory in the province of Hälsingland, spinning linen yarn and weaving linen textiles from our own yarn production.
The techniques, the material and the patterns build upon the age-old linen tradition in Sweden and Hälsingland.
Care advice from Växbo Lin:-
Always soak linen in lukewarm water for approximately 30 minutes before washing.
This is particularly important when you wash it for the first time.
Wash at 60˚C using a mild detergent without optical brighteners.
Very short spin. Stretch when hanging.
NOTE: Never tumble-dry linen.
Mangle or iron while damp, using high heat.
Shrinkage in the first wash is about 5 % in both directions.
