Description
Dora Jung’s textiles are the aristocracy of table linens! These classic textiles are a popular gift for mothers, anniversaries, graduates, and wedding couples.
Dora Jung designed this tablecloth depicting lily of the valley, Finland’s national flower, for the country’s 50th anniversary as an independent nation in 1967. Because of its background, KIELO (lily of the valley in Finnish) is today one of the treasures of collectors of Finnish design products.
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 KIELO 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.
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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