Alright, well there is a long and a short story. So textiles have always been in my blood because of my mother, she was a textile teacher. So I was connected with that from my youth. She taught me how to knit, how to sew, and other handcrafting textile techniques. And I went to art school university to study architecture and afterwards, I thought, “ Well…no, I need to go back to my textile roots”, so I studied textile design. And there I got to know weaving and that was my graduation project, to do weaving and I got to work as an assistant to a weaving designer.
And later on I did some web design and graphic design but I kept going back to the tactile aspect of it – the tangibility of materials – I find that very important. So at a certain point I thought, just go back to knitting. I bought myself a knitting machine and just studied how to do it. And then I thought, this has to be my job.