"Of course it should be a hand on a towel!" expressed Alf Levin when he was with the class on a study visit to Klässbol's Linneväveri when he was eleven years old and in the fifth grade.

Alf was with the class on a study visit to Klässbol's Linneväveri when he was eleven years old and in the fifth grade. When they returned home to Liljenäs school, the miss, Kerstin Walan, continued, "Who decides what kind of pattern it will be?" And the whole class had to sit down and draw what they thought a towel would look like. Of course it must be a hand, thought Alf. He drew with his own hand on a small checkered sheet in the dormitory block. Wrote "Title: Handuken" at the top and handed it in to the missus. Then he thought no more about it until a week or so later when the phone rang at Alf's house. Mother answered and when she said it was from the linen mill.
On the other side of the phone, it was said that the linen weaving industry had taken a liking to the pattern early on, but that it had been lying dormant for a number of years for various reasons. But Urban Johansson has finally taken hold of the hand again, redrawn it so it fits a small towel and started weaving it.

Alf Levin, at the age of 14, probably did not understand how big this would be because he can measure up to famous names such as Astrid Sampe who made the towel "Kökstrivsel" and Ingrid Dessau who made the Nobel cloth. Almost every day we get requests from trained designers who want us to weave their patterns, but almost all of them are refused, says Urban Johansson. But Alf Levin didn't even have to ask.