Over the past decade, Swedish designer Ulla-Stina Wikander has collected cross-stitch embroideries from flea markets and vintage stores; her collection now contains more than 100 designs. In 2012 she started to use these embroideries to cover household objects from the 70s: a sewing machine, a vacuum cleaner, an electric mixer. “These embroideries have mostly been made by women and are seen as kitsch and pretty worthless,” she says. By combining the old items and embroideries, both are given a new lease of life. “I find it interesting to see how these objects transform in a new context; the obsolete, old and forgotten things we do not want any longer – I give them a second life.”