Erika Åberg and Lotta H. Löthgren

Erika Åberg (@wynja)is a knitwear designer and writer living with her family and dog on Gotland, an island off the east coast of Sweden, in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Erika is deeply rooted in Scandinavian sloyd and craft and the design process always starts in the wool. Her designs are based on the love of nature, wool and island life. Art, literature and tradition. Practical, wearable and poetic. Erika leads wool and walk tours to Gotland, Shetland and Iceland among other island and coastal areas where you get to meet the landscape as well as the weather and the wool.  

The Island and the Forest: A Knitted Correspondence is her eleventh book.  

Lotta H. Löthgren (@lottahlothgren) is a knitwear designer, writer and yarn-dyer living with her husband, children, dogs and chickens in a small village in the southeast of Sweden, where she also runs her own yarn shop. Lotta leads a life close to nature and the changing seasons, in the forest and by the lakes of her home area. As a designer, she loves to interpret natural elements into practical and wearable garments, perfect for her way of life.

The Island and the Forest: A Knitted Correspondence is Lotta’s second book. Her first book Observations: Knits and Essays from the Forest, was published in 2023.  

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The Island and the Forest: A Knitted Correspondence