Tuftade golvsmycken och prydnadskuddar
This work is about getting to know tufting as a technique and to design tufted products for home furnishing.It all began in Finland, where during springtime 2004, I got in contact with the technique oftufting for the first time. A very pleasant meeting that resulted in two carpets and a longing to continueand learn more. It was then that an idea for my final project started to take form. My wish was to designtufted ?floor jewelleries? and cushions.I made a base for my project during a design project in autumn 2004. During a stay in New York I gotinspired partly from colours and shapes from the Bauhaus movement, partly from the architecture ofthe city. The geometric forms associated to Bauhaus spoke to me. In New York I got fascinated of thelines and surfaces next to each other on the front of the buildings. The small details were important tothe entire impression. The amazing perspectives were also very inspiring. It was a great feeling glancingup buildings that had no end and above all looking down on the top of the buildings and on thestreets from the top of Empire state building.The collected material from the design project was then put together with impressions of Swedishnature. So I got the inspiration material that had feeling that was hard, soft, warm, cold, powerful, andfragile. Those emotions have been important to ad to the tufted carpets. Wool was chosen to give thefelling of warmth and linen to ad shine. The smooth materials made a nice complement to the strictgeometric forms.The group of tufted products contain one big pillow for the floor, seven decorative cushions and fourcarpets. The pillow for the floor becomes a plain and soft piece of furniture, strict in black and white.The decorative cushion is more colourful and finds its place on a sofa or armchair. The carpets aresmall and easy to place as ?jewelleries? next to or in front of a piece of furniture, on their own, severaltogether, but never with furniture on top. The tufted products fit in both small and big rooms. The littlescale makes it easy to change and intensify the expression in a home environment. Through my choiceof material I want to give the products a long lifetime. This partly has been a part of the esthetical expression.I have also considered nearby production and ecological alternatives in my choices of materials.A timeless form and colour scale makes the products stand outside trends. That gives the productssustainability and they can be a part of the home for a very long time.The carpets are industrially tufted at Hitex and the cushions are made by me, tufted by hand at KonstnärernasKollektivverkstad in Gothenburg. An important part of the work was to tuft myself and get afeeling for all the possibilities in that specific technique.