Description
Bold colours and stripes inspired by the work of 1960’s UK artist-designer Bernat Klein : Pheasant orange body on a light grey warp, with an Ivy green and Crimson red stripe.
100% British lambswool and the classic honeycomb weave provides soft, cosy warmth just when it’s needed… ideal over the shoulders when the sun is going down. 62 inch long by 31 inch wide (150 x 80cm).
The vibrant colours and bounded stripes in these pieces draw on features of Bernat Klein’s textiles and his modernist home, High Sunderland. With their extra-warm honeycomb weave, these striking Sunset Shawls have a unique look and feel, made to last and stay with the family for years. Soft and light, warm and tactile, they are quite difficult to let go of!
It’s exciting to weave these pieces with a new range of sustainable 100% British lambswool, which is spun in Denby Dale, Yorkshire from UK-farmed blue-faced leicester fleece. All made by hand in Avonbridge, Scotland. Each piece is woven and hem-stitched on the 24-shaft hand loom, then individually hand-washed and finished.
Made in small batches of 15 or so, every piece is unique. If the one you like has already been sold or if you have a particular colour-way in mind, please get in touch and we can try and work something into the next batch.
About Bernat Klein:
At the age of 30 and newly married, Bernat Klein moved to the Scottish Borders town of Galashiels to join a textile industry that was technically at the top of its game but already in economic decline. Fashions were changing but Klein, described as “innovator, interruptor, intent to disturb traditions” was able to combine his unique eye for colour with the huge expertise of the Borders weavers, spinners and dyers to develop some truly innovative textile designs for the high street (and some eye-wateringly expensive ones for haute couture!).
As an artist, Klein was deeply moved by the landscapes and changing seasons around him, and many of his fabrics took their colour and proportion from his paintings. He continued to paint to his last days. He was obsessive about colour and a personal catalogue of over 5,000 individual samples underlines his ambition to create cloth with “dozens and dozens” of colours.
