The Mélancolie Shawl is designed and manufactured in memory of a friend. The design incorporates jewelry and accessories that belonged to my friend. The color palette were her favorite colors.

This shawl is based on the rough and mystical coasts of Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia, with their beautiful stories and myths. Many of these stories and myths are permeated with tales of seal people, also known as selkies, silkies, selchies, or roane.

The shawl 'Juniper' is based on the character 'Juniper' from the books Wise Child, Juniper and Colman by Monica Forlung (1930-2003).

Hasse Simonsdochter was born in a mound village in the IJssel delta as the eldest daughter of a reed cutter / basket weaver. Because Hasse was a free-spirited, cheerful child, she was believed to be a "changeling". The story tells that reed elves steal human children from the cradle and exchange them for an elf child. This is the story about the making of the shawl 'Hasse simonsdochter'.