EDITH VAN BERKEL
Eden
Flutter

Eden

Year: 2014
Material: 83% Polyester, 17% Cotton
Dimensions: 56"/ 142cm
Commission: Maharam, New York, JongeriusLab
Collection: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York,
V&A London

Eden is a dramatic pattern featuring high-contrast plant silhouettes set against a solid background. Color blocked areas create geometric shapes within the leaves and stems. Eden offers an inventive take on the decorative genre of flora and fauna. This textile feature highly picked constructions to achieve optimal color saturation and fine detail.

Flutter

Year: 2018
Material: 86% Wool, 10% Nylon, 4% Polyester
Dimensions: Width: 137cm
Commission: Maharam, New York, JongeriusLab
Collection: Victoria&Albert Museum, London

Flutter captures the twisting and turning action observed in a study of cascading feathers. The shape and gesture of floating objects, along with their corresponding shadows and seeming ability to defy gravity. Each strand of thread is placed strategically, in varying concentrations to indicate motion.

Bespoke rug Raad van State

Bespoke rug Raad van State

Year: 2011
Material: NZ wool, silk, bamboo, viscose
Dimension: 6,5 x 19m
Commission: Merkx&Girod architecten
Production: hand tufted

The monumental Ballroom is one of the few empire halls in the Netherlands at the the Kneuterdijk Palace (1716). Design of a bespoke rug in the light of this ballroom with contemporary translation of empire elements. Differents yarns and pile heights are used and elegant colours to enrich the space.
The Council of State is an independent advisor to the government and parliament on legislation and administration.

Repeat
Layers

Repeat

Year: 2002
Material: Cotton, polyester, rayon, ink
Dimensions: 140 cm wide
Commission: JongeriusLab for Maharam, New York
Collection: Centraal Museum, Utrecht, MoMA, New York,
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York,
Textielmuseum Tilburg, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,
Art Institute of Chicago, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum at FIT, New York

Repeat is the industrial that started with the creation of individuality within serial production. Repeat is an upholstery textile with an unusually long cycle of repetition, introducing random order and the opportunity to create one-offs within a family of furniture items. The pattern refers to silk ties in the archives of the Swiss weaving mill where the fabric is produced.

Layers

Year: 2006
Material: Wool, polyester yarn
Dimensions: 140 cm wide
Commission: JongeriusLab for Maharam, NY
Collection: MoMA, New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum,
New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art

The individual patterns of Layers recall various landscapes. In Layers, the use of sophisticated full-width embroidery machinery is juxtaposed with the artisanal hand-cutting of felt in the double layer variations, resulting in an industrial craft hybrid.

Sketches
Sketches bowles
Samplers

Sketches

Year: 2004
Material: Porcelain, glaze, handpainted decorations
Dimensions: Ø 17 to 35 cm
Commission: Nymphenburg, München, JongeriusLab
Collection: Stedelijk Museum ‘s Hertogenbosch, Museum Het Princessehof Leeuw­arden, National­ museum, Stockholm

This is a celebration of age-old crafts and treasures found in the Nymphenburg archives. The layout's system is designed by JongeriusLab and the experts at Nymphenburg are free to choose their own colours and images from the com­pany’s collection and leave their signature. The Sketches consist of three themes: flowers, game and animals.

Sketches bowles

Year: 2004
Material: Porcelain, hand-painted
Dimensions: Ø 17-35 cm
Commission: Nymphenburg, JongeriusLAb
Collection: Stedelijk Museum ‘s Hertogenbosch,
Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen,
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,
FNAC Puteaux, Nationalmuseum Stockholm,
High Museum of Art Atlanta

A celebration of the animal collection found in the archives of Nymphenburg. The blown-up decorative patterns, which partly cover the sculpted animals, were originally used on the company’s cups and saucers.

Samplers

Year: 2004
Material: wool Felt, revived blankets, Technique: Needle-punch and embroidery
Dimensions: 200 x 140 cm
Commission: Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, JongeriusLab
Collection: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York (10)

At the request of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Jongerius created a response to its collection. Her focus was the ‘samplers’: embroidered tapestries in which the crafters have illustrated their skills and techniques since 1800. The Sampler Blankets translate these motives in their needle punch tech­nique; hollow needles are punched through two blankets, merging the fabrics. Options from the past are approached from a present-day perspective to generate new meanings.

Argali on loom
Argali

Argali on loom

Year: 2015
Material: Hand woven, 98% new wool, 2% silk
Dimensions: 180×240cm, 200×300cm, 300×400cm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Argali on loom

Argali

Year: 2015
Material: Tibetan wool, 2% silk
Dimensions: 180×240cm, 200×300cm, 300×400cm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

In a palette of six colours, this high-quality flatwoven rug has been hand woven from handspun Tibetan wool from Argali – a wild sheep breed that resides in the Himalayan mountains.
Each rug incorporates several design details, including a hand-embroidered area with silk yarn – a reference to an old tradition of repairing the rugs. The fringes have decorative details in silk yarns

Bold
Bold weaving

Bold

Year: 2014
Material: 100% NZ wool, Hand woven
Dimensions: 300 × 400 cm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Bold is made using a mechanical spun yarn resulting in a thick and irregular in character.
This rug is woven by skilled weavers from India. With its sober colouring and simple but distinctive asymmetric design, Bold can make a statement in a space helping to structure and help in the placement of furniture.

Bold weaving

Year: 2014
Material: 100% NZ wool, handwoven
Dimensions: 300 × 400 cm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Bold is made using a mechanical spun yarn resulting in a thick and irregular in character.
This rug is woven by skilled weavers from India. With its sober colouring and simple but distinctive asymmetric design, Bold can make a statement in a space helping to structure and help in the placement of furniture.

Multitone
DUOTONE
Merger

Multitone

Year: 2014
Material: 100% NZ wool, Hand woven
Dimensions: 130 x 170 cm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Multitone started life as a colour blanket, an evolution of the Duotone rug. The result was so good that a rug was created based on the concept too. Multitone is made by weaving in multiple colours for a statement rug that energizes a space with its mesmerising pattern. The different thicknesses of the overtwined yarns and the contrasting colours lend the rug extra surface interest. It is hand woven by skilled weavers from India using New Zealand wool.

DUOTONE

Year: 2014
Material: 100% NZ wool
Dimensions: 300 × 600 cm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam
Collection: Vitra Design Museum

The power of Duotone lies in its simplicity. Each rug is made using only two colours. It is the resulting mix of the two that gives each piece its own identity. In that way the design refers to Hallingdal, an iconic upholstery fabric from Kvadrat. It is hand woven by skilled weavers in India using New Zealand wool.

Merger

Year: 2017
Material: 80% new wool, 20% cotton
Dimensions: 400 cm × 1000 cm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

The design of Merger is inspired by colour blocking techniques. In this playful, fresh design, two tone-on-tone colours are juxtaposed on a light or dark base, creating a lively and uplifting colour-block effect. This is a special and outspoken rug that is well suited to bold and sophisticated settings. Its distinctive twill, with the colours meeting at different directions and angles, creates a tactile slightly ribbed surface.

KLM world business class carpet

KLM world business class carpet

Year: 2013
Material: Wool, recycled yarn uniform
Dimensions: Various
Commission: KLM, JongeriusLab
Production: Desso

A sustainable concept was developed for the carpet in close collaboration with Desso, a Dutch cradle-to-cradle carpet producer.
Old uniforms were used to spin new yarn, incorporated into the blue details of the carpet, other wool is made with sheep’s wool that was treated as waste. The pattern – a scene of the Milky Way with blue uniform dots in the role of stars – will always match up, and the dirt mask will camouflage any stains. This is the first cradle-to-cradle carpet in the aviation industry and a perfect match for the vision of KLM.

Council Chamber Den Helder
Council Chamber install

Council Chamber Den Helder

Year: 2023
Material: NZ wool and bamboo yarn
Dimension: 6.95 x 11.60m
Commission: Office Winhov, Gemeente Den Helder
Production: hand tufted

Bespoke large rug for the Council Chamber of Den Helder, adding texture and warmth to this ceremonial space. In the Council Chamber contemporary features enliven an abstract translation of the dry-dock at Willemsoord. Details in bamboo yarn add depth of colour and a distinct lustre. The renewable wool adds acoustically absorbent properties and enhances the sense of comfort and integration in their ceremonial settings.

Council Chamber install

Wedding Hall Den Helder

Wedding Hall Den Helder

Year: 2023
Material: NZ wool and bamboo yarn
Dimension: 6.95 x 11.60m
Commission: Office Winhov, Gemeente Den Helder
Production: hand tufted

In the Wedding Hall zones of layered colours native to the dune landscape surrounding Den Helder. A field of golden dots, cut at a lower pile height, offers a focus for the wedding couple to shine during the official ceremony. Generous edging contains brightly coloured sign-flags from the nautical world that denote the words Willemsoord,Trouw, and Den Helder.

Colourfield
Chroma
Chroma
Borders

Colourfield

Year: 2016
Material: 92% wool, 8% nylon
Dimensions: 137cm width
Commission: Maharam, New York, JongeriusLab

Colorfield adds color, texture and movement to the conceptual framework of Hours, which was designed by Jongeriuslab in 2011. The design combines multiple weave structures in a highly tactile surface, creating various textures and colour blocks. A grid made of two colours dissolves into a patch of diagonal twill and then transitions to an expanse of solid basket weave. Contrasted by stacked bands of colour, broad columns of neutral texture set the various rhythms into motion.

Chroma

Year: 2016
Material: 100% wool
Dimensions: 137cm width
Commission: Maharam, New York, JongeriusLab

Chroma creates pattern and movement using the most basic woven ingredients. Rendered in straightforward plain weave, Chroma’s 1-to-1 construction is enhanced by substantial wool yarns with a homespun character. A single weft allows two custom eight-color warps to enhance the pattern with pixel-like detail. The chosen colours and materials enhance Chroma as an update of a classic heavy woolen texture.

Borders

Year: 2010
Material: Alpaca wool embroidered with polyester yarn
Dimensions: 135cm wide
Commission: Maharam, New York, JongeriusLab
Collection: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

Borders is an industrial translation of a local craft technique from South America. The embroidered lines that traverse Borders’ surface are archetypal motifs culled from different genres, including a botanical, a dotted line, and pied de poule, forming an irregular grid of unique compositions.

Atlas No. 1
Rug song

Atlas No. 1

Year: 2024
Material: Moroccan wool, hand knotted
Dimension: various
Commission: ONE SQUARE METER BERBER

To celebrate 5 years of One Square Meter Berber this limited edition rug was presented in the Soho House Amsterdam.
The hands of Taznakht's women revealed profound insights into the region's rich social and cultural tapestry. Knot by knot, a rug unfurls, weaving rituals that foster connection and harmony. In this Limited Edition piece, craftsmanship and character converge, offering a contemporary interpretation steeped in tradition.”

Rug song

Weaving Burrow
Burrow

Weaving Burrow

Burrow

Year: 2017
Material: 100% tibetan wool
Dimensions: 450cm × 1000cm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Burrow is ideal for adding warmth and richness to any home. The tactile surface reflects three different levels of pile, running seamlessly from flat and finely woven to plush and generous. Nuances of different shades of colour shimmer in the wool’s natural hand spun irregularities and lends a contemporary twist to a classic high pile rug. The top and bottom of the rug offer a bespoke coloured stripe.

Cross
Dew
Landscape

Cross

Year: 2016
Material: 60% new wool, 40% viscose
Dimensions: 400cm×1000cm, Height: 11mm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

The Cross collection is a reinterpretation of the traditional tufted rug, creating a unique visual interaction between rug and the floor underneath. In all three designs the tactile tufted surface is undercut by a strong silhouette that’s equal parts contemporary and comforting. The simplicity of Cross has a slightly more traditional appeal, combining a graphic silhouette with a highly tactile construction. A cutaway effect of block fringes on the edging completes the rug.


Dew

Year: 2015
Material: 100% NZ wool, Hand tufted
Dimensions: 450cm×700cm, Height: 17mm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Dew is a sober but refined hand tufted rug. Made from raw wool, it is finished by hand cutting the piles, lending the surface a lively and uneven character.
A subtle, almost hypnotic shadow play is created on the surface of the otherwise monochrome design. Dew’s name comes from its hazy appearance, and its earthy colour palette that emphasises the high quality New Zealand wool of its construction.

Landscape

Year: 2016
Material: 80% NZ wool, 20% linen
Dimensions: Various 1.8×2.4m, 2×3m, 2.4×3m, Height: 35-40mm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Landscape is inspired by artists’ attempts to render vistas of the natural world in paint. The carpet incorporates various yarns, pile heights and special edges in finer wool to give the feeling of
‘a paint brush on a canvas.’ Landscape combines organic expanses with patterned swaths in an abstract simulation of unfolding terrain.
The melange yarn used to create the rug is spun from natural linen and wool.

Sienna process
September

Sienna process

September

Year: 2018
Material: Tibetan wool, silk, nettle and bamboo
Dimensions: Standard sizes available
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

September is an elegant, highly tactile rug. It is a “botanical and material collage” brought to life. Hand-spun Tibetan wool combined with nettle, bamboo viscose and silk in vibrant colour fields. Featuring an intriguing surface of colourful geometric elements embedded into a natural base. September reveals a large abstract shadow of a leaf at a distance.

Sienna
Shore
Sienna making

Sienna

Year: 2018
Material: 100% pure NZ wool
Dimensions: Standard sizes available
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Sienna is a felted rug – a woollen aquarelle. The flocks of wool are placed on top of another colour, and create a special colour mix. To achieve the watercolour-like effect, dyed flocks of wool are pulled by hand until the colours become almost transparent. Like paint, when placed on top of a dark or light base, the flocks overlap and the different colours flood into each other.
Sienna is hand-felted by a group of skilled women from Kathmandu. The process involves washing, soaping and dying, before the wool flocks are placed into the pattern. Many hours are then spent rolling the material by hand and foot until it is transformed into felt.

Shore

Year: 2019
Material: 100% Wool
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Shore is a soft, beautiful felted rug that has a tranquile and yet distinct colour play around the its edges.
To achieve the watercolour-like effect, dyed flocks of wool are pulled by hand until the colours become almost transparent. The wool for Shore is hand-felted by a group of skilled women from Kathmandu. The process involves washing, soaping and dying and many hours are then spent rolling the material by hand and foot until it is transformed into felt

Sienna making

Cosmic egg

Cosmic egg

Year: 2016
Material: Wool, silk, polyester
Dimensions: various
Commission: Dutch Design Week, DAE and the Van Abbemuseum

A cosmic egg is an elemental natural shape, a bundle of yarns that symbolises the elements and planets. It pertains to the Dharma world and the understanding of the fundamental wellbeing of nature.
9 variously coloured fibers are wound in 9 yarns to form represent indefinite series of coloured dark shades.
Warmer and colder colours suggest shades of the elements: earth, water, fire and air.
Van Abbemuseum join forces for an exhibition: Broken White

Colourwheel
Vases
Confetti

Colourwheel

Year: 2012
Dimensions: 140cm wide
Commission: Maharam, New York, Jongeriuslab

The idea for Colorwheel grew naturally out of interest in colour. The wheel,
often used for colour research, is abstracted into a graphic pattern

Vases

Year: 2012
Material: cotton, post industrial nylon
Dimensions: 140cm wide
Commission: Maharam, New York, JongeriusLab

Coloured Vases makes a graphic pattern out of a 3D design project. The Vases textile uses a variety of textural weave construction including a plain, satin, rib and twill weave. To mimic the overlapping blocks of translucent colour found on the original ceramic vase.

Confetti

Year: 2013
Material: Cotton, metallic Nylon, Wool
Dimensions: 140cm wide
Commission: Maharam, New York, Jongeriuslab

Confetti creates the illusion of spheres in motion foregrounded on a solid matte surface. The dynamic material and color pairings are evident in Confetti. The atmospheric quality through natural color variation. and metallic yarn, creating depth and textural contrast to great effect.

Carapace
Fruit

Carapace

Year: 2014
Material: metallic nylon, wool
Commission: Maharam, New York, Jongeriuslab
Production: Maharam

A carapace is the upper section of the skeleton, or shell in a number of animal groups including beetles and turtles.
Originating as a series of painted dots that were gradually transformed into clusters of unusual organic forms, Carapace makes a conceptual connection between the design process and metamorphosis.


Fruit

Year: 2014
Material: Cotton, Nylon, polyester
Commission: Maharam, New York, Jongeriuslab
Collection: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York

Fruit is a jacquard woven fabric, is inspired by imperfections in nature. Its graphic approach emphasizes color and form. A solid oval is transformed by perforated and textured overlays, creating effects of depth and transparency that contrast with density of a solid-coloured ground. Fruit is available in seven variations, all with a neutral base colour combined with light accent hues.

BOLD yarn spinning
Bold melange

BOLD yarn spinning

Bold melange

Year: 2020
Material: Hand woven, 100% new wool
Dimensions: 300 × 400 cm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Bold Melange represents a union of past and present with its fusion of techniques and subtle irregularity. A new palette of ranging from turmeric to an earthy brick red in combination with a melange yarn this rug continues to define warmth and tactility. This rug is woven by skilled weavers from India.

Cocoon
Glory
Lattice

Cocoon

Year: 2016
Material: 75% new wool, 25% cotton
Dimensions: 180×240, 240×300, 300×400cm
Height: 15mm
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Cocoon brings unexpected dimension to the classic woven rug. A layered and tactile woollen landscape with soft knots whith a generous border. Wool yarn has been spun, then felted for a smooth and comfortable texture before being knotted into irregular clusters. The result is both dramatic and durable. Cocoon is woven by artisans in India

Glory

Year: 2018
Material: 75% pure New Zealand wool, 25% cotton
Dimensions: Standard sizes available
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Glory combines bright colours in the warp with contrasting hues in the weft, creating a vibrant colour blocking effect.
The houndstooth graphic is woven flat using different yarns and colours to create a complex rhythm and colour shift. The final design is an expressive check that reveals many surprising colour combinations.

Lattice

Year: 2018
Material: 75% pure New Zealand wool, 25% cotton
Dimensions: Standard sizes available
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

A flat rug with a refined houndstooth construction; It is hand woven using thick, woollen yarn bound together with a thin contrasting cotton.
Inspired by three-dimensional grids, its sophisticated, architectural construction has a warmth to it, which is enhanced by a crisp, earthy colour palette. Natural irregularities that arise from the manual weaving process add soft, human dimension to a rigid design.

Slope
Staircase runner

Slope

Year: 2019
Dimensions: standard sizes
Material: 65% Wool, 35% Cotton
Commission: Kvadrat and Maharam

Made from Tibetan hand spun wool and cotton, Slope’s intricate ikat pattern is achieved by dyeing tightly wrapped bundles of yarn by hand before meticulously aligning each yarn in an overall pattern on a loom. This traditional dyeing and weaving technique, allows for both graphic precision and randomized color expression.
In Slope you see that the absorption of colors in the yarns lends a great artisanal effect. Referencing a traditional flatweave, Slope adopts contemporary features of graphic stripes, open ground, and an earthy palette

Staircase runner

Year: 2022
Material: Tibetan wool

Dimensions: 75 x 800cm

Commission: Private residency


Custom made staircase runner for this monumental staircase in a private residency in the Netherlands. Handwoven with an intricate ikat pattern which creates this the edges free. This traditional dyeing technique allows for both graphic precision and randomised color expression.
The emerald green runner stands out with the marble floor and elegant tones of stuc and light grey painted woodwork, and gives a contemporary expression to the monumental hallway.