‍ ‍The VILDVÄVstory

VILDVÄV Studio explores weaving as a living cultural practice — carrying memory, imagination, and ways of shaping everyday life.

The studio works with weaving and textile as a art, craft and as a cultural practice. Through woven works, workshops, and collaborative projects, VILDVÄV explores how slow, material processes can reconnect body, hand, and attention in a time often shaped by speed and digital abstraction.

The practice draws inspiration from women-led textile traditions and craft economies around the world, including Berber weaving cultures and craft enterprises in Mali. These traditions reveal how textile production can sustain families, transmit knowledge across generations, and create forms of cultural and economic resilience.

At the same time, the studio is deeply rooted in Swedish cultural history. Influences include the domestic artistic world of Karin Larsson, the social and cultural ideas of Ellen Key, and the visionary artistic practice of Hilma af Klint.

In different ways, women led domestic artistic and cultural enterprises around the world , have a history of exploring how aesthetics, everyday life, and spiritual imagination can shape culture, economic and social infrastructure. 

Within VILDVÄV Studio, weaving is approached not only as the production of objects but as an expanded choreography. The rhythm of the loom creates a dialogue between body, material, space and time. Similar to dance or meditative movement, the practice invites performative concentration, patience, and presence.

Alongside the creation of woven works, the studio develops workshops and explores participatory projects with families, communities, and cultural institutions. These initiatives explore how textile practices can create spaces for shared making, reflection, and learning.

By bringing together embodied knowledge, artistic inquiry, and cultural research, VILDVÄV Studio sees weaving as both a contemporary artistic practice and a cultural technology that continues to shape how we live and create together.

Anna Losefsky

Founder , Artisan & Performative pedagouge

Vildväv — Swedish for “wild weave” — is both the name of my practice and a guiding idea: exploring how weaving can become a structure for artistic, pedagogical, and social transformation.

My textile work grows from a continuous, transformative process of self-expression, often returning to the childlike curiosity that lives within the adult self. As a mother, care and attention to the well-being of children and the child within, are also central to my practice. In weaving, I have found a space that can hold both myself and my experience of mothering — a place where both can grow.

 My education is rooted in artistic and social inquiry, with advanced studies in a/r/tography and performativity at Konstfack and Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), shaping my work within performative pedagogy, embodied learning, and socially engaged practice. My work also extends into artistic and cultural enterprise, exploring how creative practices can function as cultural and social infrastructure. Alongside this, I hold a Master’s degree in Childhood and Youth Studies, specialising in motherhood studies, from Stockholm University. My foundation in art, craft, and pedagogy was developed through training at Nyckelviksskolan and Handarbetets Vänner in Stockholm, as well as through studies in aesthetic transdisciplinary pedagogy.

 Alongside my studio practice, I have worked across the cultural sector, education, and NGO contexts, developing participatory workshops and socially engaged projects for artists, educators, mothers, children, and communities.

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Sofia Ek

Performative Pedagogue

Sofia is a pedagogue, Baroque musician, and yarn enthusiast. She holds a Magister’s degree in Pedagogy. She contributes pedagogical reflection and acts as a sounding board in the development of the practice.

Fredrik Bjernelind

Fine Woodworker & Visual Documentarian

Fredrik is Fine artist trained at Konstfack and skilled wood worker. He designs and builds weaving frames, structures, display systems, and workshop equipment for the studio. He also documents embodied knowledge and social interaction through film.

Elin Losefsky

Seamstress

Elin creates the kimonos produced within the practice. She has studied pattern construction and also brings experience from retail trade in the clothing industry and administration within cultural organisations.