We asked Nicolette Brunklaus about her new line of carpets for Egecarpets:

How does the collection take cues from industry?
Nicolette Brunklaus: It was a sample of worn linen, loosely woven and faded, that began the creative process that led to these carpets, with their patterns of textures, colours and memories. The idea came as I was reflecting on how things were made prior to the Industrial Revolution. Today, industry and efficiency have replaced hand-woven products, but even though I employ digitization in my collages, they still generate a sense of nostalgia.

Can you talk us through the design phase?
I wanted tofocus ona more woven, structured and layered composition than what you typically see on carpeting that has a solid backing colour overlaid with a pattern. To achieve the faded dahlia motif, I used the many images of dahlias in my archive, which I had photographed as they wilted and dried. I made a selection based on colour and shape and collaged them on Photoshop, as if working on canvas.

Can you explain a bit about the technical aspect of the collection?
Every two weeks I went to the Ege factory in Herning, Denmark, to work on coloration with in-house designer Helle Lykke Jensen. Matching my colour prints with the hues in Ege’s palette was a time-intensive process that took over half a year.