Great fashion doesn’t begin with a garment, it begins with the textile
Kelly Konings Textiles is an award winning textile design studio integrating textile production with fashion design. We design garments directly on the loom, bringing the craft of weaving back into how fashion is produced today.
Today’s polluting fashion system often hides the inner workings of the textile industry, creating a disconnect between garments and the textiles they are made from. Today’s market measures textile worth by the lowest price tag and existing stock volume over fabric quality or craftsmanship. Leading to production waste, deadstock fabrics, and an overproduction of textiles and garments.
Our “from loom to form” methodology reverses this system, exposing the endless possibilities of weaving as the defining visual language of a garment.
FROM LOOM TO FORM
Connecting textiles with fashion
Zero-waste and 3D weaving
Innovative crafts
Sustainable yarns
All textiles are custom-drawn digitally in our studio for each specific garment and woven on-demand by our partnering mills, meaning zero stock, zero waste. We combine digital CAD/CAM jacquard technology with soft, tactile material expression. Crafting unique textiles by merging advanced weaving structures with our signature graphic style.
We digitally align pattern shapes within the precise size of the warp, reducing the conventional 15–25% off-cut waste of traditional garment production. Using our innovative and advanced multi-layer jacquard technique, we 3D-weave complete garments, integrating pockets, collars, sleeves, seams, and silhouettes directly into the textile.
Merging industrial weaving, heritage craft and fashion expertise elevates textile production into new engineering capabilities, fostering local and circular manufacturing models. By making the weaving process tangible on the finished garment, we invite wearers to cultivate a deeper, lasting connection to what they wear.
We prioritize premium natural fibers like local wool, linen, and regenerative cotton, alongside deadstock and recycled yarns. By sourcing high quality materials from the start, we guarantee our textiles stay fully biodegradable and recyclable. On our looms, every single yarn serves a precise purpose. Garments are crafted from the thread and up!
STOP DESIGNING WASTE GARMENTS, START ENGINEERING TEXTILES!
COLLABORATE WITH US
We function both as a studio practice and a research partner, helping fashion houses, brands, manufacturers, weaving mills and academic platforms integrate loom-based garment design into their own collections. Through collaborative developments, we demonstrate how textile production can transform design thinking, brand storytelling, material efficiency, and product authenticity. By producing our zero-waste and 3D woven garments on existing industrial looms in close collaboration with our partnering weaving mills, we ensure not only small scale production but also industrial scalability.
Want to know more? Send us an email [email protected]
496FabricLab x Kelly Konings
The jacquard woven denims are made in collaboration with the famous denim weaving mill 496FabricLab based in Taiwan. The denim textiles are an experiment in weaving highly textured surfaces that you often see on old and distressed jeans. The collaboration shows a new way of global partnership in woven craftsmanship.
The indigo textiles are woven with a regenerative cotton from the Regenagri initiative, that focuses on restoring soil health, enhancing climate resilience, and increasing biodiversity alongside cotton cultivation.
PLACE YOUR ORDER
We create custom jacquard denim textiles, designed and programmed at our studio in Sweden. Woven with 100% Regenagri cotton in Taiwan. Want to know more?
Send us an email at [email protected]
3D woven boots x Enschede Textielstad
The 3D woven boots are digitally programmed in a multi-layering weaving system at the studio in Sweden, jacquard woven with the hyper-modern Smart Creel warping system by Enschede Textielstad in the Netherlands.
The jacquard woven textiles are woven with local linen from The Linen Project and wool. The handcut floats in a fil-coupé weaving technique create nicely stubborn fringes due to the contrast between the linen and the wool
The 3D woven boots were awarded the “Henrik Vibskov P:I:G Award 2025” by Henrik Vibskov and the P:I:G Foundation during a festive celebration at Gammel Strand Art Center in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Weave with us
We create custom 3D, zero-waste and jacquard weaving projects, designed and programmed at our studio in Sweden. Woven in the Netherlands. Want to know more?
Send us an email at [email protected]
3D woven tops x Ullkontoret
3D jacquard woven tops in local wool from spinning mill Ullkontoret. The wool is collected at farms in Sweden, sorted, washed, fluffed and spun into yarn on the island of Gotland.
We digitally align pattern shapes within the precise size of the warp, reducing the conventional 15–25% off-cut waste of traditional garment production.
Using our innovative and advanced multi-layer jacquard technique, we 3D-weave complete garments, integrating decorative patterns, tactile structure, seams, and silhouettes directly into the textile.
Weave with us
We create custom 3D and jacquard weaving projects, designed and programmed at our studio in Sweden. Woven in the Netherlands. Want to know more?
Send us an email at [email protected]
VENCZEL x Kelly Konings
“Soft Vessels” is a collaborative project between leather goods designer Matilda Venczel, the weaving mill Innvik by Vevft, led by Kristina Austi and textile designer Kelly Konings, challenging the boundaries between jacquard woven textiles and leather goods design.
Hybrid objects that merge the visual language of handbags, basketweave, and soft jacquard woven textiles.
The project underscores the importance of place-based knowledge and Nordic cultural heritage, focusing on natural materials such as Swedish wool, deadstock linen, and Japanese paperyarn.
“Soft Vessels” proposes a new way of thinking about function and abstraction in design. The vessels are not only everyday objects but speculative containers of material knowledge, aesthetic experimentation, and cultural memory.
The project underscores the importance of place-based knowledge and cultural heritage, focusing on Nordic materials such as Swedish wool, deadstock linen, and paperyarn. Each piece is shaped with a commitment to local production, sustainability, and craft innovation.
“Soft Vessels” celebrates alternative fashion futures through the lens of materiality, locality, and craft. This project has kindly received funding from the Culture and Art Programme ‘Nordic Culture Point’, financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
COLLABORATE WITH US
We function both as a studio practice and a research partner, helping fashion houses, brands, manufacturers, weaving mills and academic platforms integrate loom-based garment design into their own collections. Through collaborative developments, we demonstrate how textile production can transform design thinking, brand storytelling, material efficiency, and product authenticity. By producing our zero-waste and 3D woven garments on existing industrial looms in close collaboration with our partnering weaving mills, we ensure not only small scale production but also industrial scalability.
Want to know more? Send us an email [email protected]
Gommatex x Kelly Konings
Gommatex specializes in indigo cotton jacquard wovens, merging traditional artisan craftsmanship with a deep commitment to sustainable innovation and research, a forward-thinking ethos shared by our textile studio.
Founded by the Giovannelli family in 1960, Gommatex is a GOTS-certified Italian weaving mill based in Prato’s renowned textile district.
The jacquard woven textile collection is deeply rooted in the female culture of homemade textiles. Female craft practices, particularly in textiles, have long served as a means of intergenerational transmission of knowledge and identity.
The denim collaboration GOMMATEX X KELLY KONINGS showcases a holistic design approach by placing the craft of sustainable and expressive textile-making at the forefront of denim.
On our looms, every single yarn serves a precise purpose. Garments are crafted from the thread and up!
PLACE YOUR ORDER
All textiles are custom-drawn digitally in our studio for each specific garment and woven on-demand by our partnering mills, meaning zero stock, zero waste.
Send us an email at [email protected]
WEEEF x Kelly Konings
The jacquard design weaves the entire piece in one, including side seams, colour gradient and graphics. After weaving, the garment is washed and cut, ready to wear.
This special collaboration features a 3D woven football jersey, reimagining classic sportswear through our signature 3D weaving technique.
The items are made with 100% cotton warp and weft. Jacquard woven with the highest standard of detail and material by weaving mill EE Exclusives, the first OEKO-TEX STeP certified textile company in the Netherlands. Beyond generations!
VITRA x Levi’s x Kelly Konings
By engineering optical gradient effects in various twills, changing colour from dark blue to off-white right on the loom. This fabric delivers a weathered, zero-bleach aesthetic, demonstrating the sustainable potential of contemporary weaving.
The Vitra Eames Lounge Chair custom woven upholstery for “Icons re/outfitted” by our textile studio in collaboration with Vitra, Levi’s and The Visionary Lab. Jacquard woven using deadstock Levi’s yarn, the denim textile mimics a classic worn-out and distressed jeans. Digitally programmed through our innovative multi-layer weaving technique.
COLLABORATE WITH US
We function both as a studio practice and a research partner, helping fashion houses, brands, manufacturers, weaving mills and academic platforms integrate loom-based garment design into their own collections. Through collaborative developments, we demonstrate how textile production can transform design thinking, brand storytelling, material efficiency, and product authenticity. By producing our zero-waste and 3D woven garments on existing industrial looms in close collaboration with our partnering weaving mills, we ensure not only small scale production but also industrial scalability.
Want to know more? Send us an email [email protected]