Description
Lapuan Kankurit has collaborated with Suomen Käsityön Ystävät (The Friends of Finnish Handicraft) since the 1990s. In honor of Lapuan Kankurit’s 50th anniversary, we wanted to renew this collaboration and reintroduce into production the JUHLADAMASTI tablecloth and napkin designed by Raija Rastas.
Raija Rastas graduated as a textile artist from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. She has 40 years of experience in designing art textiles, interior textiles, and church textiles. Nature is breathtakingly beautiful, and each day is a captivating journey of discovery into its poetic landscapes for the artist. The changing light and colours of the seasons inspire Raija’s artistic design work.
Raija designed the JUHLADAMASTI tablecloth in 1991 while working as an artist for Suomen Käsityön Ystävät. The pattern, originally created for the festive table settings at Finland’s Presidential Palace, draws its inspiration from nature as well as from architectural details of the Presidential Palace.
We weave the JUHLADAMASTI table textiles from exceptionally fine, long-fiber linen yarn. The products are finished with a high-quality calendaring treatment in our own finishing facility in Lapua, just a stone’s throw from our weaving mill. In these festive table textiles, the natural sheen of linen is beautifully highlighted.
JUHLADAMASTI table textiles are long-lasting heirloom pieces, present at a family’s most important celebrations — in times of joy and sorrow — and passed down from one generation to the next.
Traceable natural materials
We love flax fibre, as it is a breathable and durable material – as well as one of the cleanest natural fibres in the world. Because we want our products to have long lifecycles, we pay special attention to the quality and production of our linen fibre: the Masters of Linen–certified warp and weft yarn we use is made of 100 % traceable European long staple flax. The yarns have been spun and dyed in the EU area according to the REACH regulations.
Did you know that the European cultivation of flax binds more than 300 000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions from the air per year?
Own transparent production
The most significant part of the production is done by the fourth generation of weavers in our own weaving mill in Lapua, Finland. We want to be responsible for the production of our products ourselves, starting from the yarn all the way to the finished product. The product design, material purchases, loom programming and warping as well as the pre-work stages, weaving and fabric inspection are done in our own weaving mill in Lapua, Finland. The sewing is done in our subsidiary’s own sewing department in Kaunas, Lithuania, or in our own sewing department in Lapua. The product finishing is done in our finishing plant in Lapua, Finland.
Thanks to owning our production, we are able to design our products and processes so that our ecological footprint stays as small as possible.
Care instructions
Wash linens at 60°C on a gentle cycle. Do not spin. Wash separately with plenty of water. 40°C is also an adequate wash temperature. Do not use softener and avoid bleach. Reshape and dry on a round beam or surface, not in a tumble dryer. Linen textiles will dry quickly, remember to iron when the fabric is still damp. The colour of natural linen becomes lighter with washing. Shrinkage approx. 7%.
Reuse and recycle!
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