Description
100 RUUSUA textiles are the aristocracy of table linens! These classic textiles are a popular gift for mothers, anniversaries, graduates, and wedding couples.
Dora Jung’s most famous and beloved damask tablecloth, 100 RUUSUA, was originally commissioned for the 100th anniversary of Stockmann department store in 1962. It is a highly valued design classic that is passed down from one generation to the next. 100 RUUSUA is a beautifully lustrous festive tablecloth featuring an abundant rose pattern in which Dora Jung achieved a unique three-dimensional effect through weaving techniques. “Dora Jung demonstrated how one can paint just as well with yarn as with oil paints.”
Dora Jung (1906–1980) was known as a bold reformer, a pioneer of textile art, and a developer of weaving techniques. She possessed a unique sense of aesthetics, colour, and form, as well as exceptional skill in working with the finest linen qualities. Her designs received the most prestigious national and international awards in her field. At heart and soul, Dora Jung was a craftsperson for whom working with textiles was a lifelong vocation. The idea of bringing more beauty into the everyday lives of ordinary Finnish homes inspired her.
At the Tampella mill, tablecloths, napkins, and placemats woven from Dora Jung’s designs, nearly equivalent to handmade pieces and bearing the artist’s signature, were produced until the factory closed in 1980. Now, more than forty years later, Dora Jung’s magnificent linen textiles are once again woven at the weaving mill of Lapuan Kankurit.
We weave the 100 RUUSUA table textiles from fine, long-fiber European linen. The products are finished with high-quality calendaring in our own finishing facility in Lapua, just a stone’s throw from our weaving mill. In these festive table linens, the natural sheen of linen is beautifully highlighted.
The table linens designed by Dora Jung are long-lasting heirloom pieces, present at life’s most important family celebrations, in times of joy and in times of sorrow, and passed down from generation to generation.
