New Finnish Pekka Antikainen Stoneware in Denver

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Scandinavian Christmas Linen from Finland

Elegance, durability and practicality are features that Finns have always demanded from the best interior design products. Lapuan Kankurit Oy, founded in 1973, is a modern Jacquard-weaving mill seeking product ideas from current needs while paying homage to the strong Finnish textile traditions. Using the natural fibers of linen and cotton, LK aims to design and manufacture modern, high-quality decorative textiles as well as textiles for everyday use in Scandinavian homes.

Even the best weaving equipment will never replace skilled textiles professionals. The ability of the mill staff, the designers and the suppliers to cooperate seamlessly is a constant source of new ideas. Product development requires open-mindedness and the ability to deal with risks associated with innovation. Courage is required in order to question old practices, and this is a rare quality found in a select few. It is the job of the designers to boldly create linen interior design textiles for Scandinavian homes.


Nancy Bladfält's and Marja Rautiainen's new holiday patterns brings a merry air to the Christmas kitchen. The color of the Joulupuu (Christmas Tree), Pipari (Gingerbread) and Lumihiutale (Snow Flake) rib cloth and kitchen towel are a fresh red-and-white. Those new table textiles create a genuine feeling of traditional Christmas. The festive tablecloths and light glass towels are 100% linen. The color options include white, red, blue, brown and black. In addition, the red and light green Julia towels and runners fit into the homey Christmas kitchen.






















All products carrying the Lapuan Kankurit label are designed, manufactured and finished at the weaving mill in Lapua, Finland.

Handmade Shaman Drums from Finnish Lapland

The Sámi drums are oval wooden frames (South Sámi gievrie) or bowls (North Sámi goavddis) covered with reindeer skin. The drum skins are decorated with traditional shamanistic patterns.

Characterized by a central Sun Cross and an unbroken path around the edge. Individual figures are commonly placed on the arms of the sun-cross, on the outer path or floating between these. The typical symbols on a Sami drum are gods (Thunder, Horn, Wind and Mother), people, reindeer and other animals and different kind of tools. Every drum is unique and one will never find two quite alike.



The Sámi (Saame in Finnish) have lived in Finland since ancient times. According to current belief, the Sámi are ethnically the offspring of development that covered many generations. They are thought to have descended from the people who settled in Fennoscandia after the last Ice Age, about 7,500 years BC.



The old Sámi religion was founded on an animistic world-view and a shamanistic form of worship in which drumming on the "runebomme" (ritual drum) and traditional chanting, yoiking, were of great importance. Nature was considered life-giving, and mountains, stone formations and lakes could be of help to the people if they worshipped them and brought them sacrificial gifts. Natural phenomena were gods. The sun (Paivo) had a central place, not as a personified god, but as a basic cosmic force, which extended its rays across the world and carried the personified gods on its rays. These gods were not people, but intermediary figures between human beings and greater forces. Dierpmis (the god of thunder) was worshipped fervently. Bieggolmmái (the god of wind), mánnu (the moon) and áhcolmmái (the god of water) were revered because they had the power to improve people’s conditions.

Asta Pulkkinen ~ Naive Artist

Asta Pulkkinen is one of the most famous naive painter in Finland. She is a member of Finnish Naivist Group which has an exhibition in Iittala Village every summer. All ornaments are made of paper mash and hand painted according to Asta's design. Pulkkinen designs are based on Finnish countryside living, summer, winter and Christmas. Asta's favorite elements among Finnish landscape are children, angels, countryside, cows and dogs.

New Design by Pekka Antikainen

Pekka Antikainen has created new gorgeous designs again! The Medieval Horseman series includes stoneware bowls, plates and keepsake boxes.




Following his Lapland theme comes the Shaman Sun series with astonishing vibrant colors!
























The third new stoneware design is based on Finnish bird motif from 800 A.D. ~ Hattula Bird. This Scandinavian jewelry design is found in ancient burial places in Hattula, southern Finland. The northern peoples had a special relationship with waterfowl, which symbolized fertility. For the population of the north, the return of birds in the spring signified summer, the start of a new year. When the waterfowl returned, people knew that nature was emerging from its winter sleep. Waterfowl featured the magic of fertility.

Bianco Blu ~ Modern Finnish Art Glass

Bianco Blu makes various glass products, including adornments, utility items, and works of art. They produce business presents for enterprises and manufacture items on order. BB designs all their products by themselves or co-operate with glass artists and designers, including Ristomatti Ratia, Pauli Partanen, Camilla Moberg, and Martti Aiha. BB also co-operates with Italian artist Mauro Capitani and Yong-Phil Lee from South Korea.




Tarmo Maaronen, the owner of Bianco Blu, has been blowing glass since 1979 when he started as a apprentice in Nuutajarvi Glassworks. In early 1990's Maaronen worked for several small glass studios in Finland and also taught Scandinavian glass blowing techniques in Florence Italy for a couple of years before opening his own studio, Bianco Blu in 1997. He has become one of the most respected and skilled glass-blowers in Scandinavia.



Reima Maaronen, Tarmo's older brother joined Bianco Blu in 2002. He also has a long career in glass blowing. Reima started blowing glass in 1972. He spent years in Nuutajarvi Glassworks before joining his brother in Bianco Blu.

Finnish Linen ~ Traditions In Modern Style

Elegance, durability and practicality are features that Finns have always demanded from the best interior design products and Finnish linen does not make exception!

Even the best weaving equipment will never replace skilled textiles professionals. The ability of the mill staff, the designers and the suppliers to cooperate seamlessly is a constant source of new ideas. Product development requires open-mindedness and the ability to deal with risks associated with innovation. Courage is required in order to question old practices, and this is a rare quality found in a select few. It is the designers’ job to courageously create linen interior design textiles for Scandinavian homes. In Finnish linen designs tradition and old world elegance unites with fresh modern ideas, creating curious and timeless beauty for any home.

Today, there are two major linen weaving mills Jokipiin Pellava and Lapuan Kankurit in Finland, both in traditional Ostrabothnia weaving area.

Jokipiin Pellava Oy is a family company founded in 1920. Until 1989 the company was known by the name "Jokipiin Villa- ja Pellavakehräämö Oy".

The raw material that we use is increasingly linen yarn that has been grown and refined in Finland. This is called Nord Lin linen. Linen farming re-started in Finland in the 90's. The largest areas in Finland are in the Ostrobothnian region.

Jokipiin Pellava is specialized in weaving linen terry towels and other linen textiles that fulfill the demands of home and public interiors.

Lapuan Kankurit Oy, founded in 1973, is a modern Jacquard-weaving mill seeking product ideas from current needs while paying homage to the strong Finnish textile traditions. Using the natural fibers of linen and cotton, they aim to design and manufacture modern, high-quality decorative textiles as well as textiles for everyday use.

All linen products are designed, manufactured and finished at companies’ own weaving mills in Finland.