Introducing: Eva Jandíková, Atelier Terej

Eva Jandíková founded Atelier Terej in 2000. She is experienced in creating patterns for linen fabrics. She graduated from the Studio of Textile Design at VŠUP. In the early 1980s, she became a designer of woven textiles at the Folk Art Production Headquarters, and her main task was to create new designs for the weaving mill, which had twenty leaf looms, churning out two hundred thousand meters of canvas per year. In 1995, the ÚLUV era ended, but the demand for Eva's designs continued. She gradually tried several weaving mills, the most important of which were Perla and Mileta.

Eva began offering her designs of cotton fabrics in a finer quality than the traditional kanafas. In 2015, she also discovered a company that works with linen, did not hesitate and tried the linen
canvas. "What I like about flax is its durability compared to cotton, plus this plant with pale blue flowers doesn't have to be fertilized and sprayed with pesticides as much," he says.

We asked Eva a few questions.

1. How did you get into fabric design? If you weren't a textile designer, who would you be?
I was gifted from above with a sense for colors and patience with weaving techniques. I was very lucky to be there
she got to the University of Applied Arts, to a studio that was tailor-made for me. The experience I gained from my parents, industrial textile workers, was then put to good use when I designed for Krásná Jizba.

2. What were the beginnings of Atelier Terej? And what does the abbreviation mean?
We founded Atelier Terej with Klára Holanová in 2000 (Klára then became independent and specializes in clothing). The abbreviation stands for Textile realization in a different way. This otherwise expressed that we are looking for non-traditional paths within the small-scale industry
realization of textiles. Currently, I change the "j" to Jandíková.
PS terej is the name for a sea bird that I really like. As if he also interpreted the fact that I will design linen fabrics, because it is colored in neutral shades... grey-beige and white, only the legs are colored (red, blue, yellow....)

3. What does working with textiles mean to you?
The joy of creation. Applying my color visions. Designs usually come about when I get excited about some color combination in nature, which then takes up residence in my head and rolls around a bit, unfolds and expands. So I try her
get into the fabric. Most of the ideas cannot be exactly repeated, the technology of canvas weaving is strict. I consult something with clothing designers or my daughter who studied psychology. So there are compromises, new colors, which either I enjoy even more or someone around me likes them, so I'm satisfied too.

4. What are you most proud of in your professional life?
The fact that clothing manufacturers and interior designers, customers who like exceptional things come back to me. And then also that I expanded my production to include linen fabrics and that I contribute to zero waste.

5. What would you like to realize in the future? What are your plans and what can we look forward to?
The new collection of fabrics, conceived in the spring, in March, is already "mandled, measured and rolled". It should be available at Atelier Terej in early August. We are also thinking about other designs, but I won't reveal that yet.