TODAY The company is located in Horred on the west side of Sweden, 60 km (37 miles) southeast of Göteborg, a good location about a 30-minute drive from Landvetter airport. All production takes place in the company’s factory in Horred. We import yarn that is dyed in Sweden. Thereafter we weave, prepare and produce the finished products. The machinery features the latest technology, efficiently operated by our proud skilled employees.
HISTORY: THE EKELUND
FAMILY STORY : THE WORLD'S LONGEST HISTORY? For 16 generations, and over 450 years, the family has worked using textiles.
According to well documented research, we are probably the world's oldest
family textile company. Börje, Larsson, the family's eldest known member, was
born in 1540. The time was characterized by self-subsistence, and on the farms
people wove the textiles they needed. The family's livelihood then developed
from these skills. But it was not until some time into the next century, that
one could discern the contours of what is now Linneväveriet in Horred and the
Ekelund brand.
ABOUT OUR EARTH
This historic company is committed to a green environment. The
president states “…having grown up in a society where every spare
moment was devoted to fishing and hunting in a boundless and, unspoiled
Countryside, and with the understanding that I now possess of how the
family and the company have lived on the bounty of Nature for more than
300 years, respect for the earth that feeds us has become a matter of
course.
When seen in this perspective one is alarmed at the damage caused by
industrialism and the consumer society: acidification, dying forests,
over-fertilized oceans, mountains of waste, chemical and physical
environmental disasters, etc. “
