KIRUNA COLLECTION
by Anna.Carin for Designer Rugs
Anna-Carin’s new Kiruna collection for Designer Rugs draws inspiration
from the Sami people of northern Scandinavia. Inspired by a childhood journey to Kiruna, it honours their rich cultural heritage, blending nature with the artistry of Sami traditions.
The handknotted collection features a captivating palette of soft, earthy tones,
evoking a sense of tranquillity and warmth.
Blom
Anna-Carin was gifted a doll dressed in traditional Sami attire, featuring embroidered mittens, fur boots with upturned toes, and a hat with ear flaps adorned with lace and ribbons. A tasselled scarf with embroidered flowers draped over her shoulders, inspiring this design.
Trewa
Inspired by the reindeer leather coin purse Anna-Carin’s sister, Eva-Maria was gifted, which featured an embroidery pattern resembling tree roots or reindeer horns.
KNIFER
Inspired by a small knife that Anna-Carin’s brother Lasse was gifted with a handle made of reindeer horns. It had this intricate interwoven ‘noughts and crosses‘ pattern carved into it.
FJELL
This design references a little wooden ladle gifted to Anna-Carin’s brother Kalle. It included carvings in a diagonal uneven pattern that looked like mountain tops with little huts spilled over them.
NORSE COLLECTION
by Anna.Carin for Designer Rugs
Anna-Carin has travelled back into her ancestry for her second rug collection - a collaboration with Designer Rugs. Her inspiration coming from the first system of writing developed by the Norse peoples: the Runes.
The Runes functioned as letters, but they were much more than just letters in the sense in which we today understand the term. Each rune was an ideographic or pictographic symbol of some cosmological principle or power, and to write a rune was to invoke and direct the force for which it stood.
Each rug holds a special meaning and belief behind it. Through this collection she invokes the force of the earth goddess, wealth, respite and family unity into the homes where these rugs lay.
The Fehu
The rune of wealth.
“Every beginning has within it the seeds of its own end.”
Othala
The rune of ancestral land: hearth, home and family unity.
“We inherit ourselves.”
The Berkano
The rune of the great mother,
the earth goddess.
“The most obvious Truth is hidden deep within, and only you will ever know it.”
The Isa
The rune of ice or respite.
“Ice only appears to stop a river’s flow.”
