Ingela Berntsson has meant a lot to Klässbols as she was one of the tone-setting designers who worked with our products on site for a long time.

Ingela Berntsson was born in 1950 on the island "Stora Askerö" in Bohus county on the west coast. After school there was weaving school and studies at HDK (College of Design and Crafts) in Gothenburg, where Ingela Berntsson trained as a textile designer between 1971 and 1975. After she finished her studies at HDK, she came to Klässbol as a weaver's apprentice in 1976. Right from the start weaving was the textile technique that interested her the most. As she says herself, she was "completely taken" by weaving, but also by the people at the weaving mill. Linen is the fabric that fascinates Ingela Berntsson the most. She has been very interested in developing different techniques to increase expressive powers of the woven image.

Ingela Berntsson not only works with textile design but also with coloring. Not least because she considers coloring to be the basis for all other types of image production. She has had exhibitions at, among others: Röhsska Museum (Gothenburg), Nordic Textile Trienal and Art Forum (Norrköping).

Quote:
"When the linen is manglased to a shine, the pattern appears distinctly, even in an all-white cloth. This happens because the light is reflected differently from the warp and weft threads. If you walk around the table a quarter of a turn, the pattern is reversed – the light becomes dark and the dark becomes light. It's magical.”