Description
Textiles designed by Dora Jung are the aristocracy of table linens! These classic textiles are a popular gift for mothers, anniversaries, graduates, and wedding couples.
VIIVOJEN LEIKKI (Play of Lines) is a Dora Jung design classic from 1957. Representing a new kind of artistic expression in textile art, VIIVOJEN LEIKKI earned Dora Jung the internationally prestigious Grand Prix at the Milan Triennale in 1957. The award opened many doors, and Dora Jung’s name began to attract interest in art circles around the world. ”Dora Jung’s Grand Prix will be the most important springboard to success and world fame for Finland”, stated Italian Minister Lombardo at the award ceremony in 1958.
”The VIIVOJEN LEIKKI tablecloth combines exquisite artistic sense and an excellent technical weaving performance.” — Ilmari Tapiovaara, 1957. From the moment of its creation, VIIVOJEN LEIKKI was a classic, representing Finnish industrial art internationally for several decades.
Dora Jung (1906–1980) was known as a bold reformer, a pioneer of textile art, and a developer of weaving techniques, with a unique sense of aesthetics, color, and form, as well as exceptional skill in handling the finest linen qualities. Her designs received the most significant national and international awards in the field. At heart and soul, Dora Jung was a craftsperson for whom working with textiles was a lifelong calling. 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 comparable 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.
VIIVOJEN LEIKKI, which has also been used as an official gift of the Finnish State, is woven from the finest and most densely woven linen quality, Extra A, while other Dora Jung table linens are produced from A-quality linen. The products receive a high-quality calendaring finish in our own finishing facility in Lapua, just a stone’s throw from our weaving mill. In these festive table settings, the natural sheen of linen is beautifully highlighted.
The table textiles designed by Dora Jung are long-lasting heirloom pieces, present at life’s great family celebrations—in times of joy and in times of sorrow—and passed down from generation to generation.
