Sauna and linen – Perfect pair
Linen is absorbent, lightweight and dries fast. It’s easy to see why we consider it the superior company to sauna. Let the sun shine and the steam rise in style and comfort with our linen bath products.
Materials
In Love with Linen
Linen is one of our favourite materials. It is ecological, comfortable on the skin and easy to use. Flax is one of the oldest and cleanest fibres in the world. The linen yarn we use is spun mainly inside the EU area by Masters of Linen spinners. These spinners only use flax grown by rainwater […]
Snow Day Cleaning
When temperatures drop to minus degrees and snow covers everything in sight, Finns gather their rugs, blankets, and clothes and take them outside. The coldest winter days are perfect for cleaning. The crisp winter air here in the north is perfect for airing out rugs, duvets, and pillows. As children, many Finns loved walking on […]
All Wool and no Shoddy
It wasn’t too long ago that up to half of all Finnish sheep wool ended up in the landfill. However, thanks to spirited advocates and growing public awareness, wool is experiencing a new heyday. Lapuan Kankurit helms the movement of utilizing this domestic treasure to its full potential. Mankind has used wool for protection from […]
Buying Finnish Sheep’s wool
We are buying good quality, pure and clean wool from Finnsheep and Kainuu Greys. We collect the Finnish sheep wool from local farms ourselves, in approximately 300-kilometre radius around Lapua. We have built a continuously operating wool product finishing mill in Lapua, with a wool spinning mill under construction, as well. Please contact us via […]
Dyeing with Coffee and Woad
Lapuan Kankurit sources the Finnsheep wool fibre, utilized in their wool yarns, locally. The yarn made from this fibre is spun to be either natural brown or beige, and some are dyed further. The Finnsheep wool is also dyed in the Lappajärvi Dyeing Mill, either blue from plant dyes extracted from woad or yellow with […]
Wool is wonderful outdoors by Anton Kalland
The cold, wind, and damp are the biggest challenges outdoors. If we don’t shield ourselves from these elements, we feel uncomfortable and will cut our visit to the wild short. This has not changed over the thousands of years during which the sparsely haired human mammals have walked the earth. It’s interesting that the solution […]
Natural dyes put finishing touch to sustainable production
Dyeing with natural, plant-based dyes is a long-time Finnish textile tradition. However, apart from traditional knowhow, industrial-scale natural dyeing also requires production development such as new recipes and creating a whole new dyeing process. Lapuan Kankurit is ready to face the challenge of the industrial use of natural dyes. Lapuan Kankurit is aiming to include […]
Investing in high-quality Finnsheep wool
The atmosphere in the sheep barn of Reino and Raija Louko is peaceful. Only a stray bleat blends in with the even buzzing of the shears. The brown, black, and white Finnsheep curiously peak at the shearing line where the shearer handles the sheep with a steady grip. The wool shorn here will end up […]
The versatile wool blanket by Anton Kalland
At its most simple and yet versatile, the wool blanket brings out the best properties of wool outdoors. Ever since humans domesticated sheep 8000 years ago, the wool blanket has retained its shape up to this day. The super-functional properties of wool woven into a square shape makes it the ultimate piece of equipment for […]
Local Finnsheep wool
Lapuan Kankurit continues to invest in Finnish sheep’s wool. With the wool finishing and spinning mill, we can control the entire production chain of wool and make unique product development with Finnish wool. At the same time, we take responsibility for transferring know-how to future generations. Lapuan Kankurit will build a new production facility in […]
Love for Linen
Absorbent, fast-drying, durable and ecological. There are many good reasons to choose linen towels from Lapuan Kankurit.Creating the best linen towels in the world has been our goal since the very beginning of Lapuan Kankurit. To us, being the best means not only the highest quality, longevity, and design of our products, but also the […]
Intelligent Nature
Authentic, natural materials are close to our heart at Lapuan Kankurit. We love weaving with linen and wool because of their unique qualities. Linen is a truly ecological material. It grows with rainwater without irrigation, which saves groundwater and maintains a healthy ecosystem. We use European linen that is produced according to Öko-Tex standards. As […]
Editor’s choice
TERVA Linen-Tencel one of Editors’ choises 2014The new linen-Tencel is a material like no other! The Association of Interiors Journalists has selected the 12 best Finnish interior design products yearly from 1999. 2014 one of Editors’ choises are Lapuan Kankurit’s new innovative linen-Tencel bathtextiles TERVA and KIVI. The award-winning products are a combination of beautiful […]