FUNDING AWARDED
It has been a great pleasure for the Gudrun Sjödén Foundation to have awarded funding to the initiatives presented below. We have received a lot of interesting applications but have decided to select just a few of them to receive funding. We believe that we are generating more value by doing so as it means that each initiative is awarded a slightly larger sum of funding.
PROJECTS AND AWARDS
PEMA’s textile and design project in Kathmandu
Pema Dorjee and Spirit of Threads, Monica Ekervik-Hedman in Stockholm are running a collaborative project that teaches sewing and needlework skills to women in Kathmandu, Nepal. The school is established and the third group of students began their training in March 2022.
More information about the Pema Foundation can be found on the Spirit of Threads website. The team gives us an insight into the project and we can follow the work of the Foundation. The Gudrun Sjödén Foundation has awarded funding for a planned trip to Kathmandu in September 2022. Read the report here »
Git Skoglund, textile historian and journalist writes and publishes a book about growing hemp in a village in Vietnam. The hemp is grown in a traditional way and the women of the village craft products by hand. SEK 45,000 was awarded.
GGit reports that she has now visited the village in Vietnam and followed the work of growing, processing and weaving the hemp. We have received a detailed report with lots of colourful photos illustrating the entire process from growing the crops through to the end products. Read the report here »
Åsa Pärsson – record of weaving from different regions of the world
Åsa sends a report from her first stop in Florence, where she has acquired an in-depth understanding of the velvet weaving process. She is greatly interested in learning more about weaving tools. Her project takes her onwards to the Hangzhou Silk Museum in China, to Oaxaca in Mexico to learn backstrap weaving, and Uzbekistan to weave silk velvet and ikat.
Stephanie Suarez, FIX website – about mending clothes/textiles
Malin Vessby, Hemslöjd magazine – textile handicrafts trip to Greenland
Marie-Louise Franzen, Almgren’s silk weaving mill – makes looms for artisan and craft courses
Anna Blom – funding for marketing of her podcast “Fashion and Lifestyle".
Anna Häggblom is writing and publishing a book about Göta Trägårdh.
Göta was a well-known textile and fashion designer whose heyday was in the 1950s. Founder of the Beckman Design College with Anders Beckman (for advertising and graphic design, fashion and product design). SEK 50,000 was awarded.
Global teachers – has been awarded funding to build and start a school to teach sewing and needlework in Burkina Faso. The school is now being built up. This is a development and charity organisation that fights poverty and exclusion in Sweden and other countries. (SEK 100,000 was awarded.)
Traces of the hand - book about block printing and indigo dyeing
The book visualises block printing and its unique wealth of designs, from a historical perspective to today. Plus a cultural exchange initiative with block printers from Ajrakhpur, Kutch, India and students and professionals in the field of textiles in Sweden.
Funding has been awarded to Linda Zetterman, designer and teacher at Capellagården, and Johan Ekelund, photographer and graphic designer (SEK 50,000)
KNITTED IKAT - experimenting with resist dyeing to pattern yarns
Eva is studying ikat textiles in Sweden and other countries, past and present, and works with designs of tools for effective binding, experiments with resist dyeing and attempts to combine ikat with knitting.
Eva’s aim is to be able to work out beforehand how bindings need to be done in order to knit a patterned surface in a controlled way without using multiple yarns of different colours.
Funding was awarded to Eva Davidsson, graphic designer (SEK 40,000)
PATTERNS OF DIVERSITY (plants and birds)
The aim of the project is to study plants and animals in order to develop their forms into textile patterns. Patterns created by a biologist, crafted by hand and inspired by nature.
Funding was awarded to Anna Berg, culture artist/biologist, and Maj Persson, marine biologist/illustrator. (Joint funding amount SEK 60,000.)
A book of memories from a colourful life of design
Wanja tells the story of her remarkable long life of working in the Swedish textile industry, from the early 1960s to present day. In other words, 70 years as a designer.
Funding was awarded to Wanja Djanaieff, artist, designer, professor, etc. (SEK 100,000.)