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MADE IN SWEDEN. DESIGNED FOR THE WORLD.

The key words stand for the point or place where something begins or is created and the time this occurs, and the collection reflects a return to origins, both to refine and to create a movement forward. The 2017 collection is born out of equal parts passion and respect for Kasthall and the company's design heritage. It plays with opposites like restraint and excess, adding and subtracting, deconstructing and combining. It mixes purity with curiosity for the people who move around a room and the rooms themselves, and allows different personalities to be mirrored in and put their imprint on...

CONTENT ABOUT KASTHALL 4–9 OUR WOVEN RUGS 10–11 OUR TUFTED RUGS 12–13 RUG DESIGNER 14–15 WOVEN COLLECTION 16–85 HAND TUFTED COLLECTION 86–131 OUR ARCHIVE 132–135 WALL-TO-WALL CARPETS 136–137 GOO

MADE IN SWEDEN. DESIGNED FOR THE WORLD. Swedish design company Kasthall is offering premium design solutions for textile flooring, for commercial areas and residential. Since 1889 Kasthall has designed and produced exclusive rugs in its own factory in Sweden. With innovation and craftmanship always using the best material, Kasthall has become one of the leading brands with a strong worldwide presence. Together with our first class service, expertise and ability to tailor made after customers wishes, Kasthall is today many customers first choice in premium textile flooring solutions. 3

At Kasthall all our rugs are special: made by hand with great care and attention to detail. In addition to our vast collection, Kasthall Design Studio offers the possibility to create a completely bespoke rug or carpet - whether it’s a complex textile tapestry, an unconventional shape, a unique pattern, or simply a perfectly matched color. How are the forms and colors of a rug developed? Our in-house designers work full time to experiment with and refine our designs, but we also invite some of the most talented architects and designers from the international arena to work with us. And yet,...

LENA JISEBORN, DESIGN DIRECTOR Lena Jiseborn is educated at The Swedish School of Textile University of Boras. She has a long experience as a designer within the car industy, both at sAAB and later on at Volvo where she was the Design Director for Color&Material. Lena’s passion for textile, together with Kasthall’s unique quality of the products, led to the position as Design Director for Kasthall. GUNILLA LAGERHEM ULLBERG, FORMER CHIEF DESIGNER Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg’s inquisitiveness and need to experiment, combined with her sense of color, material and technique are some of the reasons...

BEHIND EVERY RUG THERE ARE MORE THAN 100 PROCESSES IN WHICH MACHINES CAN NOT COMPETE WITH THE HUMAN BRAIN AND HANDS. To create unique pieces, we can work from a motif, shape or color that the client supplies. Alternatively, our experienced in-house designers and color experts are happy to create a unique design, in close collaboration with the client - the starting point could be a piece of furniture, wallpaper or fabric to match, an idea of a shape, or something as abstract as a feeling. With the aid of sketches and color samples, the process starts with creating “yarn poms” to check the...

WE ARE OBSESSED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR PRODUCTS

ONE: We produce our woven and hand tufted rugs in our own factory in Sweden where we adhere to the strict environmental regulations and employment laws of our country and the EU. Our working environment reflects the creativity and quality of our rugs. TWO: We make our woven and hand tufted rugs using the finest natural materials, such as wool and linen. These are biodegradable, renewable materials that don’t drain our planet’s resources. What’s more, they retain their good looks for a long time. THREE: All our woven and hand tufted rugs are made to order. We don’t make anything to be...

Weaving is a craft that has occupied humans for thousands of years. The concept is simple: two perpendicular rows of threads, the warp and the weft, are interlaced. This may be the most beautiful aspect of weaving. Simplicity is the key, and the results are timeless and durable. While the basic concept is simple, we have refined the technique. Step by step, over many decades, we have refined the art to create more exciting, advanced and unique rugs. Our woven rugs are mainly made of yarn that we make ourselves from the finest natural materials: wool, linen, or a combination of the two. The...

TO WEAVE IS TO LOOK BOTH BACK IN TIME AND FORWARD

HAND TUFTED RUGS Tufting provides a multitude of possibilities in terms of patterns and forms. We can create any motif or shape that is desired or imagined. Our tufters, like our weavers, must possess a high level of craftsmanship at every stage of creating a hand tufted rug. Once the rug is tufted, we make sure it meets the high level of quality we demand. Short piles are sheared so that the pile is even and beautiful. On rugs with longer pile, tufts that are too long are trimmed by hand. This way we find the individual character in each rug. At Kasthall we’ve been tufting rugs since 1972...

KASTHALL RUG DESIGNER Kasthall Rug Designer® is a web based application where you can design your own unique woven Arkad or Häggå rug using different patterns in 160 colors. Everything that can be designed in Rug Designer can be done in our production – so you never have to worry about that while designing. Choose from all patterns and colors in the Arkad and Häggå collections and any size you desire. Your rug will be one of a kind, specially made by you. If you are not very familiar with the Arkad and Häggå collections; have a look at our website and learn more about them and get inspired...

KASTHALL RUG DESIGNER® From the toolbar you can create a new rug, open an existing or change the name and size of your rug. You can also create a rug specification or send your rug as a link via e-mail. On the main rug area you can see the result of your creation; the number and size of the pattern fields and the total rug size. Every rug consists of a number of pattern fields. Once you have created your rug you need to fill it with fields. This is where you select background and foreground colors. There are 44 mixed, and 116 uni colored yarns to choose from. Depending on the quality you...