ON THE TRAIL OF A SLUMBER CARPET – AND A SHORT STORY OF KJELLERUP WEAVING MILL: ANNE METTE LARSEN

Sideshow in Skovvilla

Weaver Annemette Larsen says: "Seven years ago he said no - Poul, the old owner of Kjellerup Weaving Mill. when I came up with my Midtjyske Tæpper (Central Jutland Carpets) project. And maybe it was good, because it ended up in Norway and it was as local as it could get back then. That's a whole other story (and a good one).
But I was so happy when I heard one day that KjellerupWeaving Mill had new owners, that all the machines were not packed in a container and sent east. Claus and Christian said yes! - Yes, for a collaboration on a new carpet. With their yarns on their looms and with my design and binding, developed in a quality adapted to their equipment. A long cherished dream.
Think that Denmark's only weaving factory is only 34 minutes from my workshop! And to think that the two manufacturers let me in and let me get my hands on all their machines!
This exhibition and accompanying book describe the long road from the first failed attempts until we reached the goal of something viable. My meeting with Kjellerup and the old weaver. All the samples, all the woven yards, a mixed bunch: The sad and the quirky and the runaway. The outdated and abandoned and the sour with too much yellow. The nice ones and the delicate ones and the obscure ones that were just sitting in the cupboard at the first shot. The boring ones and the ones far out in the woods. And then there are those who just long for the sofa - they are all there.
Welcome them when they land in reality! They are from me and Kjellerup Weaving Mill.”