Linda van den Akker & Rinkje van der Veen – From Field to Fabric: the development of our 100% bio-based curtain collection

Rinkje van der Veen is designer and product developer at Royal Vriesco | A House of Happiness. Royal Vriesco’s mission is to make the world more beautiful with sustainable curtains. With the largest collection of recycled and circular curtains in Europe, they now expand their portfolio with a 100% bio-based curtain collection. With fabrics from wool, linen, jute, bamboo and cotton. In this lecture Rinkje, together with Linda van den Akker, takes you through the process of creating this bio-based collection, from the initial idea to the commercial presentation. This includes zooming in on the fabrics made from wool and the locally produced and processed linen fabrics.