About

From the thread and up

Kelly Konings is an award-winning textile designer based in Sweden. She specializes in jacquard weaving, 3D weaving, and woven fashion projects. Her work seamlessly connects textiles and fashion through weaving, cultural history, and contemporary craftsmanship. 

Konings earned a Bachelor’s in Fashion Design from ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in The Netherlands. After working 15 years in fashion, she earned a Master’s in Textile Design from the Swedish School of Textiles. Top magazines, including Vogue, Elle, ID Magazine, and Scandinavian Minds, have featured her textile collections.

Kelly Konings was kindly awarded the ‘Henrik Vibskov P:I:G Award 2025’ and the ‘ELLE Circular Fashion Award 2023’. Other nominations include the ‘Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize’, the ‘ALPHA Award’, and the ‘European Craft Prize for Applied Arts’.

Important institutes have presented her collections. These include ITS International Talent Support, New Order of Fashion, The Linen Project, Crafts Council NL, and Gallery Rademakers. Her work has also appeared at Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholm Craft Week, Copenhagen Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, Dutch Design Week, Salone del Mobile, Stockholm Creative Edition, Kingpins, Circular Textile Days, and Première Vision.

Jacquard woven float structure in linen, paperyarn and wool. Woven at @innvik_as with @vev.ft and @austikristina Amazing @nanasacko wearing our jacquard woven denim top, woven with deadstock cotton yarn on a cotton warp. The weaving structure is digitally aligned with the silhouette of the top and adjusted to fit exactly on the warp 💙 Handwoven experiments looking at movement by stretching the warp, woven with a cotton cord in warp and weft 🤍 Soft wavy denim twill in indigo cotton Wool and linen 🖤 “Hacking the loom” today at the @textielmuseum with the amazing hacked jacquard loom by @jos___klarenbeek who re-activated an old loom from the museum depot into a digitally activated loom! Jacquard woven fringe denim in a raw indigo regenerative cotton from the Regenagri cotton farming initiative. Woven with my fellow indigo experts at @496fabriclab by @waynewaynechiang. The fringes are woven into the fabric in a fil coupè weaving technique and then cut, making it an intrinsic part of the twill construction! Black wool roses with a green cotton and brown linen overlay of loose floates, jacquard woven on a cotton warp! Some jacquard woven experiment in linen and wool on a cotton warp ❤️🩷

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