Lotta Löthgren - librarian, jeweller and knitwear designer ... living in the Swedish woods.
Delighted to share with you the photos from Country Living magazine November issue featuring The Birlinn Yarn Company.
Photography: Nato Welton
Lotta and I started collaborating just over a year ago. One of those serendipitous moments when an email drops into your inbox …
“My name is Lotta and I live in the forest of southern Sweden, where I’m currently on the planning stage of opening up a small yarn shop.”
I checked out her website, there seemed to be a common aesthetic, I liked her jewellery and her knitwear designs really appealed. So I said “yeh sure … you can stock my Birlinn Yarn” and since then we have struck up quite an (email) friendship. We seem to share a love and appreciation of our natural surroundings, although our environments could not be more different.
And so with the launch of Lotta’s second knitwear design in Birlinn Yarn, I thought it was time to introduce the knitwear designer behind both Waterlands and Salix Alba sweaters.
Meet Lotta Löthgren of Elk Market Yarn – librarian, jeweller and knitwear designer …
”I often find the simplest questions are the hardest to answer – like ‘What is it that you do?’ ...
My name is Lotta, and I live with my family of humans and dogs in a big house in a forest located in the south eastern part of Sweden...
Apart from running the shop, I also plant dye yarn and create precious metal jewellery...
All these things are hard to pin down in a short answer...
Much, if not everything, I do and create comes from the very place I live in...
My dogs, two Welsh springer spaniels who are happy and excited about everything...
As I write this from my old desk, I look out over a sunlit field where the snow is melting...
