Filcolana is a very old business, but we don’t actually know exactly how old. We have account books dating back to the 50s, so aside from knowing that Filcolana is at least 60 years old, we also know that somebody paid 135,55 dkk for shipping on February 10th 1954.
This year, it has been 10 years since I bought Filcolana. It seems like a fitting time to take a look back at years that have passed – and turn this retrospection into a look book. I feel that gorgeous, classic knitting design deserves to be knitted for many, many years, and therefore we have taken a look through the boxes with the designs that Filcolana has published over the last 10 years. The greatest challenge in this process has been limiting ourselves when trying to select which designs to include, but we have ended up carefully selecting a total of 53 knitting designs, that we feel have really stood the test of time.
Some of the designs we have just re-photographed, while others have been re-knitted in new colours. Some we have even had to re-calculate, as the original yarn has since been discontinued. Many talented knitting designers have created designs for Filcolana over the last 10 years, but when we went through the process of selecting the designs for this collection, one stood out. We could very easily have created a whole collection of designs by Rachel Søgaard alone, as she has made one incredible Filcolana design after another. In fact, she has contributed to every single Filcolana collection over the last 10 years. However, Filcolana´s collections have always been designed by a team of different designers and “Decade” is no exception, so the collection contains designs by a total of 12 very different and very talented knitting designers.

Filcolana er et gammelt firma. Faktisk ved vi ikke helt, hvor gammelt Filcolana egentligt er. Vi har regnskabsbøger liggende fra 1950’erne, så ud over at vide, at Filcolana er mere end 60 år gammelt, ved vi at Filcolana betalte 135,55 kr for spedition d. 10. februar 1954. I år er det 10 år siden jeg købte Filcolana. Og 10 år giver alligevel anledning til at se lidt tilbage, - og dette tilbageblik blev til denne lookbook. Lækre, klassiske strikdesigns fortjener at blive strikket i mange år, så vi har været på jagt i kasserne med de designs, der er udviklet gennem de sidste 10 år. Det var umådeligt svært at begrænse os, men vi har nøje udvalgt 53 forskellige designs, som vi synes holder max endnu.
Nogle designs er egentligt bare fotograferet igen, andre er strikket op i helt nye farver, og så er der dem vi har regnet om, fordi det garn, de oprindelig var designet i, er udgået.
Vi har haft mange dygtige designere til at designe for os gennem de 10 år, men da vi skulle vælge modeller ud, kunne vi nemt have lavet en hel bog med Rachel Søgaards designs. Hun har lavet det ene lækre design til os efter det andet. Ja faktisk har hun bidraget med designs i hver eneste kollektion de sidste 10 år. Filcolanas kollektioner har dog altid været designet af et hold af forskellige designere, og ”Decade” er ingen undtagelse, så her er designs fra tolv forskellige og meget dygtige strikdesignere.

published in September 2019 by Filcolana

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