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Jobs Handtryck has always chosen its own path, not going with the flow or jumping on the bandwagon – this is how it has managed to create such timeless and unique design classics. The floral fabrics are still printed entirely by hand, just as they were when it all began in 1944. The core focus is still on the artists’ patterns, along with the ambition to reproduce them at their very best – print after print, year after year.
A key element of Jobs’ philosophy is to continue to launch new patterns and develop new products, made from the classic fabrics.
Today more and more people are discovering Jobs’ colourful fabrics. A new generation is discovering its own favourite patterns and using the fabrics in its own way, often coupled with highly modern design. That’s the sign of a real classic.
The artistic Jobs family
The story of Jobs Handtryck starts with siblings Peer, Lisbet and Gocken Jobs, born early in the
20th century. The three grew up in Dalarna in a large and artistic family – their father was an
organist and composer, while their mother was an artist whose paintings and embroidery promi-
nently featured fl ower motifs.
Sisters Lisbet and Gocken trained as potters and started their own pottery studio in the 1930s.
At the same time, Peer became interested in textile printing, producing his fi rst printed fabrics
with handcarved printing blocks. When the Second World War made it impossible for the Jobs
sisters to import the glazes for their pottery, Peer started to transfer his sisters’ patterns onto
fabric, a move which would turn out to be inspired.
In 1944 he had a print workshop built in Västanvik and a year later, they launched their hand-
printed fabrics at exclusive department store NK in Stockholm with their hit exhibition “When
beauty came to town”. The handprinting was developed in subsequent years – Peer refi ned the
printing technique while Lisbet, Gocken and other artists composed patterns.
Peer’s wife, Eva Jobs, ran the business together with Peer from the mid-1960s until his death
in 1989, after which she continued on her own. Eva is a textile teacher and artist who has also
contributed a large number of patterns to the Jobs collection.
At the turn of the millennium, Eva Jobs handed the reins over to the next generation, so the
family company is now run by Jesper and Åsa Jobs, Peer and Eva’s son and his wife.
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