Astrid

Step into Astrid’s textile world, where our latest news, a selection of luxurious hemp fabrics blends with our softest wool additions and selected classics. Meet Kiwi, a radiant satin available in a delightful spectrum of colours. The beige hemp is nicely complemented by new tones in the classic voile California. Astrid is evolving and want to showcase fabrics in new ways, at the same time reflecting on our history. In the same spirit we have invited Katie Lowson from Collection Apart to show how timeless antiques blends with modern design and art, interwoven with Astrid's textiles. In Astrid's textile lab we reveal the beautiful harmony of our diverse fabrics through a shared colour code.

Most of the textiles we use for the stand will be rolled up afterwards and used again. We will not build any walls and we will use the raw concrete floor as it is. All to minimise what will not survive the fair.

As Astrid honours collaborations, we asked Katie Lowson from Collection Apart to give her perspective into our fabrics and news in a curated exhibition. Explore a journey where the timeless allure of antiques seamlessly merges with modern design and art, interwoven with Astrid’s textiles.

Discover thoughtfully curated settings with artists like Axel Wannberg, SAERK, Mliceramics, Din Lampa, and a Swedish debut from the artist Alexandra Yan Wong (London), each contributing a unique perspective to the exhibition.

Most of the textiles we use for the stand will be rolled up afterwards and used again. We will not build any walls and we will use the raw concrete floor as it is. All to minimise what will not survive the fair.

My ambition, when creating spaces with antiques, furniture, and art, is always to bring the pieces I source alive with a more modernist sensibility, to create ‘a new way of living’ with them so they continue to tell a narrative in a contemporary home. Astrid’s refined and luxurious collection of fabrics, with their wonderful range of hues, tones, and textures, provides the perfect backdrop to the pieces I love the most just now.

About Collection Apart:
Led by Katie Lowson, Collection Apart is renowned for its unique blend of curated furniture, art, and antiques. Focused on creating spaces that transcend design norms, Collection Apart brings a fresh perspective to each collaboration, infusing contemporary relevance into timeless pieces. The partnership with Astrid marks another chapter in Collection Apart’s commitment to weaving narratives that bridge the past and the present.

“My ambition, when creating spaces with antiques, furniture, and art, is always to bring the pieces I source alive with a more modernist sensibility, to create ‘a new way of living’ with them so they continue to tell a narrative in a contemporary home. Astrid’s refined and luxurious collection of fabrics, with their wonderful range of hues, tones, and textures, provides the perfect backdrop to the pieces I love the most just now,” says Katie from Collection Apart.

TEXTILE NEWS 2024

Hemp Collection
We are proud to present a new collection in the natural fibre hemp. The collection features a variety of luxurious fabrics, each with unique qualities – going from sheers to dense and from structures to smooth. The colour of the yarns comes out through a gentle bleaching of the natural colour of hemp.

Hemp fibres are extracted from the stalks of the hemp plant. These fibres are known for their strength and durability, making them suitable for textile production.
The final look of the hemp yarns are visually quite similar to linen, as well as its environmental benefits. But for hemp it’s actually even better, requiring minimal water, pesticides, and herbicides. Hemp grows quickly and can improve soil health.

The huge demand for linen fibre from the fashion industry has forced us to look into other fibres and made us find out more about this incredible fibre. The facts that it’s also more resistant to light than linen is also a good argument.

Our new collection of hemp fabrics are all woven in the weaving mill in the north of Italy. The yarn we use are spun into yarns in the area close by the factory but the source of the hemp fibres we use are produced in China. China has a long history of cultivating hemp for various uses, and hemp has been an important crop in Chinese agriculture for centuries.

The cultivation of industrial hemp has also a history in Italy and we monitor closely the development of a local industrial production of hemp fibres. We also see an increase of interest all over Europe and here in Sweden. A major step to overcome is the development of machinery for the process from plant to fibres.

Relaunch of Lenno and Kiwi
Experience the rebirth of Lenno, a soft and sheer linen fabric on double width. This relaunch introduces a spectrum of new colours, injecting depth into a classic linen sheer. Kiwi, a long time classic with us, is now seeing the daylight again. It is a radiant satin available in a delightful spectrum of colours.

New colours of California
Marking two decades as Astrid’s signature voile, California unveils a renewed vibrancy with six new colours. Woven in Italy with flame-retardant Trevira CS, this double-width fabric, adorned with thin, fine threads, casts a shifting colour enchantment due to the use of six different coloured warps. This creates the canvas for making the colour scale and makes all the difference when realising the deep and shifting colours. This way of weaving fabrics gives us endless possibilities when creating new colours.