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Do You Know Who Sewed Your Garment?
Each Woolpower piece carries a personal name label from the seamstress who crafted it. With fair working conditions and pride in every stitch, we create garments you can feel confident in.
Are fair working conditions and a living wage important to you?
Do you know how the people who made your clothes are treated? If you’re wearing a garment from Woolpower, you can feel confident that the people behind it have fair working conditions and earn a wage they can live on.
At our factory in Östersund, one of Sweden’s largest sewing facilities, we operate nine production lines. Our seamstresses work in teams, each focusing on different products, from jackets and vests to accessories, Long Johns and Zip Turtlenecks.
No one works on piece rates. Quality always comes before quantity. If a seamstress identifies an issue in the process, production is paused to fix it.
Below, you can meet some of the seamstresses who have worked, and continue to work, in our factory in Östersund.
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A quality seal
So, it is the same seamstress that sews your entire garment, from the first to the final seam. Once the entire garment has been sewn, the seamstress checks and approves it by signing the garment with their own name. That’s why the name tag is both a quality seal, as well as way to help our customers understand that behind every garment is a person. A person with a great deal of knowledge about their craft.
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Monika Heldorsson
Monika has been working at Woolpower in Östersund since 2016.
“I attended Woolpower’s seamstress when I first started here. We learnt how to make garment patterns and how to use the machines, and then we had to start sewing clothes. It went well for me and after that I got a job. I love working with my hands and managing my own tasks. These types of jobs aren’t so common in Sweden and it’s great to have such a unique role. I’m proud of my job.”
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Ann-Mari Lund
Ann-Mari worked at Woolpower in Östersund from 1977 to 2021.
“I have been working at Woolpower for almost 40 years. During this time I have acquired a great understanding of the material and developed my skills as a seamstress. I am proud to be a part of the Woolpower team. I guess the number of years that I have been employed here proves it well! ”
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Martha Persson
A name that appears in many of Woolpower’s garments is Martha Persson. She worked as a seamstress in Östersund for 45 years, from 1975 to 2020.
Over the years, she has accumulated lots of memories, and even though world celebrities, royalty and great politicians have stood beside her and watched her work, it is people and meetings during the factory annual open house she remembers best.
“I love the factory open house. People are curious and want to know everything. You usually do not think so much about how unique it is with a sewing factory in Sweden, but during an open house it becomes extra clear and visitors have a lot of questions.“