Every design for Ekerö

Out on the Mälaröarna islands, where eastern Mälaren winds around them, lies Ekerö. Much of it is about the calm between houses and water – a residential place where everyday life rolls on and the commute runs in to Stockholm. The centre, designed by Ralph Erskine, gave the town a gathering point after the years when Träkvista was the middle of everything.

Around it lies what gives Ekerö its character: Ekebyhovs slott and its grounds, the Ekebyhov slope where winter comes into its own, and the shoreline of Tranholmsviken. Names that surface as you follow the lines of the map and recognise your own corner of the Mälaröarna.

You who wear this: perhaps you wake to birdsong by the water, perhaps it is homesickness that pulls. Either way your islands are with you, printed in the fabric and close to the heart.