New Leiden Blanket

English translations

• New Leiden Blankets
• Design: Vera van de Seyp
• 10 variations, 100% Dutch wool
• Price: € 295
• If the blanket you are looking for is no longer available, you can order it from the Leiden Blanket Foundation. They will weave one especially for you. Please note: these blankets are handmade, so please allow approx. 2-3 months for delivery.
• The displays in Rooms 17 & 18 explain the design process that produced these blankets.

Artist Vera van de Seyp has created a contemporary design for a new Leiden Blanket, commissioned by Museum De Lakenhal and Leiden Blanket Foundation/Leidens Weaver corporation. Van de Seyp immersed herself in Leiden's blanket-making history, which dates back to the sixteenth century, and selected ten sites of former blanket factories on which to base her design. She then used a computer code to convert these factories' names into abstract patterns. The result is a series of ten different blankets woven in Dutch wool yarn and a colour palette based on old blanket patterns. The blankets are made in the Stichting Leidse Deken workshop on a unique peddle-powered loom belonging to the Leiden Weaver's House. The blankets are on sale at the Leidse Dekenshop and in the museum shop. Vera van de Seyp (Leiden,1993) is a graphic designer and creative coder. She lives in New York and works as a designer and teacher.