About PilLove

I'm glad you found your way to PilLove!

I'm a woman in my thirties that have always been passionate about interior design. I have a great love for color and have never understood the love we Scandinavians have with the neutral palette. We just love our whites, beiges, grays and blacks. I guess I find it difficult to understand why we - with our gray and comparatively cold and harsh climate - would prefer to surround us with such dull and lifeless colors.

To me color is warmth, happiness and life! We need color to brighten up our everyday life. This is what I want to help you with. I want everyone - regardless of the size of your wallet - to be able to buy yourself some color. First and foremost I do this with the help of pillows. I have them in all shapes and sizes but they all come in color and lots of it! You can use them for them for your sofa, bed or floor or why not use one to brighten up your workspace or give one away as a christening present or birthday gift.

As I am a fan of all things beautiful I occasionally come a across unique items that have that "je nais sais quoi", that special something that just pulls at your "I want, I need" gene and you just have to have it! These items can be found under "Selected by PilLove". All of these products live up to at least one of the following criteria; handmade, fair traded, eco-friendly or second-life product. A lot of these products are true gems in that sense that they are vintage and showcase different cultures textile heritage. Take a look at the hand embroidered Suzanis, the hand embroidered bags made of vintage Chinese baby carriers or the hand dyed and hand woven ikat pillows from Uzbekistan. Beautiful!

Enjoy your browsing and hopefully shopping experience and please don't hesitate to give me a call or shoot me an email if you have any questions or enquiries. Please visit my blog as well. To visit my blog click image below. Thanks!

Lots of love,

Charlotte

Background

The concept to sell decorative pillow covers online was born some months after I got home from one of my trips to Thailand. In a sense it all began several years ago when I fell in love with some fabrics that my mom had brought with her after a trip to Bali. Like for my mom, it was love at first sight. Unfortunately, but rather predictable, the fabrics ended up in the linen cupboard and then lay there for several years.

Then approximately 15 years later I travelled to Thailand to visit my parents and there they were again. Everywhere in the local villages the Muslim women paraded around in these wonderful fabrics, wearing them as a sort of sarong. The fabrics were sold at the local markets. There they were laying next to the spices, vegetables and exotic fruits.

I could not help but buy me a few pieces of fabric. I decided to make pillow covers out of them and had the local seamstress make them for me. They turned out great and once I arrived home and saw the pillows adorn my bed and floor, I feel in love all over again. So I decided I had to share them with everyone else. Just because the weather is gray here in Scandinavia does not mean we have to dress our homes in the same colorless palette.

Then the concept of selling decorative pillow covers grew to include other cultural textiles, so now the collection includes pillows from all over the world, from Malaysia and Japan to America and Great Britain. All made by small independent designers who design and produce these wonderful pillow covers by hand, often in their little studio. The general theme on PilLove.se is COLOR and lots of it! I want to inject some color into the white, beige, brown, gray and black palette of Scandinavian homes. In this often gray, dark and cold climate we need color to brighten up our everyday lives. So join the movement, buy a vibrant and colorful pillow!

I obviously wanted to share my love for color and design with the "little people" so I have a children's collection, too. A favorite - among many - are the wonderful owls that are handmade by a woman in Malaysia but also PilLove's own colorful childrens collection.

With love,

Charlotte

Konceptet att sälja kuddfodral på nätet föddes kort efter att jag och min man flyttat hem efter en tid i USA. I USA hade jag av en slump upptäckt en nätbutik med just detta koncept d v s som sålde kuddfodral på nätet. Smart tänkte jag, enkel produkt att paketera, förnya och frakta! Sen tänkte jag inte så mycket mer över det förrän vi några månader senare besökte mina föräldrar i Thailand. Väl där  förälskad jag mig i några tyger som jag såg mer eller mindre överallt i de lokala byarna. De muslimska kvinnorna bar dem i form av en sorts sarong och på alla de lokala marknaderna fanns de till försäljning sida vid sida med kryddor, grönsaker och exotisk frukt.

Jag kunde inte låta bli att köpa på mig några tygstycken och fick 8 kuddar uppsydda under mitt besök. Sen när jag kom hem till gråa kalla Sverige blev jag på nytt förälskad i dessa tyger när deras härliga färger prydde mitt golv och min säng. Tankesmedjan satte igång. Jag måste göra något med dessa tyger, men vad?

Kuddar blev de naturliga valet då ett par nya kuddar är ett relativt billigt sätt att förnya sitt hem på. Successivt har kuddkonceptet växt till att inkludera andra kulturella textilier så nu har jag olika länders eller kulturers textilier representerade i form av färgsprakande kuddar/kuddfodral från Malasia och Japan till England och USA. Samtliga av dessa kuddar är inköpta från små oberoende designers som själva designar och producerar dessa gobitar. Jag har lyckats samla dem här på ett och samma ställe, redo att liva upp de Scandinaviska hemmet som enligt mig har på tok för lite färg. I detta ofta gråa och kalla Skandinaviska klimat behöver vi färg för att pigga upp vardagen. Så hjälp mig med att injicera lite färg i de Skandinaviska hemmet!

Jag ville givetvis dela med mig till "små folken" så jag har en barnkollektion också. Några favoriter är bl a de underbara ugglorna som är handgjorda av en kvinna i Malasia men även PilLove's egen färgsprakande kollektion.