In this rug which was my very first weaving project at school, I wanted to use only old white sheets as my raw material. First I dyed and painted the sheets using hues of purple, orange, gold and blue. I wanted the colours to blend gradually into each other like in the Finnish traditional rag rug weaving technique called "kiikkalainen". Then I sewed the sheets into a cylinder form so that I was able to cut them into a continuous piece of weft. The weave patterns I used in this rug were rose-path (ruusukas) and plain weave (palttina).

Here are two examples of rag rugs which I had woven before the school. This rag rug is made completely of old fabrics and old clothes like pyjamas, blouses, t-shirts etc. In addition to plain-weave, I also used rose-path in this rug because of its diverse possibilities.

I have always loved to experiment with colours. At school I learnt to dye the yarns for my weaving projects using fiber reactive dyes. Here you can see my plan for a carpet which I designed for an old house built in 1907. I hand-dyed all the wool yarns for this two-sided 2,5 meter-long taquete carpet. I was looking for certain shades of green, mauve ( = malva) and warm yellow which were typical in the Jugend period. On the other side the colours are the opposite. I used a thick white wool yarn called "Huopikka" tex 2000.

I made the visual plan for the carpet with the help of the Weavepoint -program. Plants and flowers were typical motifs in textiles and furniture at the time.