The name Fiasask is a combination of ‘Fia’ (that’s how they call Veerle in Sweden) and ‘ask’ (Swedish for box). Under that brand, she designs handmade keepsake-boxes.
‘With needle and thread, I sew and baste paper, cardboard and cotton into this particular model. Thereby I make use of prints, taken from vintage postcards as well as reproductions of traditional Swedish clothing’.
The use of the vintage postcards and the Swedish traditional textiles as source of inspiration is not just a coincidence. Fia literately wants to interweave the old handicraft traditions with design in a modern expression.