Dezeen looks behind the scenes at Bolon’s factory in Sweden to see how the brand’s woven vinyl flooring is produced in the next installment of our exclusive Bolon at Heart video series.
All Bolon flooring is produced at the company’s factory located in a small town called Ulricehamn in the textile-producing region of Sweden.
The heart of the production facility is the weavery, where thousands of threads and strips of vinyl are woven together to create the surface material of the flooring.
“We have two different kinds of looms in the weavery – shaft looms and Jacquard looms,” explains Lars Eklund, who ran the company together with his wife Monica before his daughters Annica and Marie Eklund took over in 2003.
Bolon has used shaft looms to for many years to create flooring with a simple pattern or block colour, but has invested in a number of state-of-the-art Jacquard machines over the last five years to produce more complex patterns.
Unlike a shaft loom, where the vinyl yarn in controlled in groups, Jacquard machines enable each warp thread to be controlled individually, which enables much more detailed and complex patterns to be produced.
“Marie and Annica wanted us to help them with the designs, so we invested in the Jacquard looms” Lars Eklund explains.
Marie Eklund adds: “Today, I would say we don’t have any limit – we have so many possibilities to design flooring.”
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