Across cultures and languages, the word kiosk connotes convenience and availability. By providing goods for daily life, kiosks become meeting points that commonly mark cornerstones for local communities.

The Weaving Kiosk is a public space where weaving tools and materials are made available for anyone to use. Together with the tools and materials, collections of weaving samples and readily designed product proposals are presented that have their base in traditional Nordic weaving techniques. Using these for inspiration or as production guidelines, participants in the Weaving Kiosk can choose to remake an example from among them, or explore by their own choice of yarns and techniques their adaptation into products of their liking. This way, products that relate to individual purposes and needs can be freely created.

The Weaving Kiosk is a concept created by textile designer Rosa Tolnov Clausen and conducted together with fashion designer Merja Hannele Ulvinen. Its aim is to explore Nordic hand weaving traditions and their place in and value for contemporary contexts of design and production. Weaving Kiosks are pre-eminently social spaces for people to meet and exchange across gender, age and professional, cultural and social backgrounds.

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