Lapuan Kankurit - ANEMONE Placemat (Blue)

Lapuan Kankurit - ANEMONE Placemat (Blue)

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 (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.

Dora Jung’s most well-known small damask designs include Ruusut, Anemone, and Prinsessat. In 1961, Dora Jung designed the ANEMONE small table linen, inspired by Japanese style and featuring a sophisticated colour palette. She believed that a square cloth was best suited for a round table.

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 ANEMONE cloths from long-fiber European linen. The products are well-finished 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.

Size: 35x35cm