The last straw: Designers revive Nordic craft

‘We asked ourselves, why is craft disappearing?’ Renée Padt, co-founder of Editions in Craft, tells LS:N Global. ‘The irony is that in places like Sweden craft is only celebrated at Christmas and even then it’s made in China.’

In an attempt to re-invent traditional Swedish straw-weaving, the project invited international designers such as Studio FormaFantasma, Sagovolvo and Katrin Greiling to the isolated Swedish province of Dalsland. In a series of workshops the group collaborated with 40 local craftswomen to create a series of unique products, presented for the first time in Milan this week.

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