There is a hint of salt in the air when you touch coastland fabrics. You can almost hear the sound of the North Sea and see the changing light over the dunes – that quiet, shimmering ‘cloud theatre’ that the North German landscape re-enacts day after day. Heinz-Jürgen Gerdes has translated this very feeling into his work: with his small wool weaving mill on the coast, he not only preserves an almost forgotten craft, but transforms it into contemporary design – raw, honest and touchingly
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