fredag 8 april 2011

Colourful Flour Flowers

The 'Flour Fellow' bean bags should have prints in the style of flour bags of the old days (the icon is of the flour miller taking a nap on his newly filled bags...), and invited four artists to make artwork for the bags (Barbro Wesslander, Carina Nibér, Ann-Sofie Lennstrand-Hallberg och Johanna Hansson - you can see them sitting on their bags here). 

And sustainable bags should be machine washable - we started looking for local fabric printers that could make washable prints using ecological ingredients, and found Svenskt Textiltryckeri AB in Sölvesborg, Sweden. They made a test print on one of the test hemp fabrics that we had received from Ecolution, using an existing pattern that they had. And here it is, ready to be part of my T-shirt Chair, some colour and a good contrast to the kaki and yellow that I started off with... 

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