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New Brand Alert – Pikkuset, Oxox, Arksie and Olikai have joined Weecos!

Anu Hurme

Several novelties for kids have arrived! Meet Pikkuset, Oxox Kids, Arksie and Olikai Design who have lately joined Weecos! Weecos is a sustainable marketplace uniting visionary designers with you. A purchase made in Weecos is a purchase straight from the brand itself. Now over 230 brands from Finland and abroad can be shopped trustworthily in one place. *** PIKKUSET Pikkuset makes […]

Meet the New Sustainable Brands who have joined Weecos!

Anu Hurme

Meet Imageroad, Regular Celery, Puuvillatehdas and Organic Socks of Sweden who have lately joined Weecos! Weecos is a sustainable marketplace uniting visionary designers with you. A purchase made in Weecos is a purchase straight from the brand itself. Now over 230 brands from Finland and abroad can be shopped trustworthily in one place. IMAGEROAD Imageroad is all about decorating walls. The various […]

Meet Your New Favourite Brands!

Anu Hurme

New clothing brands iluut, Kaisa Turtiainen, LAURIJARVINENSTUDIO and The Pilou have opened their Weecos-shops! Which one’s your favourite? Weecos is a sustainable marketplace uniting visionary designers with you. A purchase made in Weecos is a purchase straight from the brand itself and now over 230 brands from Finland and abroad can be shopped trustworthily in one place. *** ILUUT iluut, the […]

What are certificates and why Weecos can be seen as one?

Anu Hurme

Certificates show us, for instance, the social or environmental responsibility of a brand. Tens of brands in Weecos have a certificate on their materials used but it is not compulsory as all the brands in Weecos have passed our auditing before opening their shop. Our promise is that the brands in Weecos know where their […]

Meet the Inspirational Interior Design Brands Made of Sundays, Greyscale Design, LANGO Home and Luonnon Lumoama!

Anu Hurme

Now is the perfect time to brighten up your home, garden, patio or balcony. The new brands Made of Sundays, Greyscale Design, LANGO Home and Luonnon Lumoama are the ideal brands for this! In Weecos, we unite sustainable designer brands and you – enjoy all the 223 inspirational brands. … MADE OF SUNDAYS The environmentally-friendly wall stickers by Made of […]

Meet Maanantaimalli, Laa Laa Living, RUOKO design and HEMPEA!

Anu Hurme

We proudly present you the joyful jewellery brand Maanantaimalli, the bedclothes brand HEMPEA and the interior design brands Laa Laa Living and RUOKO design ! At the moment, there are over 220 brands in our sustainable marketplace, the place uniting sustainable designer brands and you! MAANANTAIMALLI Matleena Töhönen, the founder of Maanantaimalli, wants that Mondays are celebrated like Saturdays are. Therefrom […]

New brands in Weecos – meet Stella Soomlais, Hanna Saari, PURA Finland and Studio M!

Anu Hurme

Meet Stella Soomlais, Studio Hanna Saari, PURA Finland and Studio M – the new, inspirational brands in Weecos! Weecos is a sustainable marketplace uniting visionary designers with you. Now over 220 brands can be shopped trustworthily in one place. Between you and your favourite designers, there are no storages or extra hands between as the purchase made in Weecos is a purchase straight […]

Pricing Finnish Design – What does it cost to produce, sale and distribute a TAUKO dress?

Guest Blogger

What does it cost to design and sell sustainably produced clothes? What are the different actors and what are their shares? Roughly, the TAUKO cost structure consists of four areas: manufacturing, brand, retail, and VAT. Each of them can be broken down into smaller parts, again with their particular cost structure. As an example, let’s […]

Recycling of discarded rental textiles – see where TAUKO’s raw materials origin

Guest Blogger

The main raw material used for the TAUKO clothes is discarded textiles provided by textile service companies. These companies rent out textiles for hotels, restaurants and healthcare. Annually tons of bed linen and table clothes are discarded in Helsinki and Berlin, and the amount of textile waste for one textile service company is more than 150 kg per day. Very little […]

Have you met these unique, sustainable brands already?

Anu Hurme

VAI-KØ, Namu Jewellery, Jaana Huhtanen Design and Paccas – these brilliant brands you have to meet! Weecos unites you trustworthily with sustainable brands. A decision made in Weecos is a purchase made straight from the brand itself. There are no extra hands between you and your favourite designers. *** VAI-KØ “Vaiko” is the Finnish word asking […]

Lovia Makes Luxury With Full Transparency

Anu Hurme

Lovia’s cone jewels are amulets holding the wisdom of pine trees. As Outi Korpilaakso wants to make luxury with nothing to hide, she knows precisely where the mining happens and who makes the jewels. The coating is pure chemistry. A few years ago, Outi Korpilaakso decided to quit her job in an international department store […]

For the love of our Sydänmaa

Hanna

Sydänmaa means the Heartland. It is the wilderness, the distant woodland, backwoods or salo, erämaa, korpi, takamaa as we say in Finland. The common thought is that Finnish people in general love forests. We have lived in the forests as long as there has been settlement in this part of the world. Forests reinvigorate us, […]

Top 5 Interior Design Products in Weecos and -20% Discount Code

Anu Hurme

Is the Weecos Home category familiar with you? We have a wide range of absolutely wonderful interior design products in Weecos – from towels, clocks and chopping boards to pieces of furniture like tables and beds. This weekend, from 27th to 29th October, with the code WEECOSHOME20 you get -20% off from all regular priced interior […]

Weecos in New York with sustainable design brands

Anu Hurme

Weecos heads to New York to the Finnish design event The House of Finland. The event is held between 11.-14.9.2017 and is part of a larger event – the Finland100NYC. There Weecos represents the emerging, responsible and interesting brands in our own department. The brands joining this event are Aapiste, Finarte, Jatuli, Kuula + Jylhä, MEM by Paula Malleus, […]

Home sweet home!

Anu Hurme

Looking for new furniture for your child’s room or playful ideas to keep your kids toys in order? We have gathered the best of Finnish design together – designs so gorgeous that your kids want to stay at home to play. These brands represent not only first-class design but also sustainable values and buying from […]

Back to School and Work – Autumn Has Never Looked More Fabulous Than This!

Anu Hurme

I must admit that I have always been one of those people who enjoy going back to school, and now, to work after the summer holidays. Why? Because of the new Autumn stuff! I still recall the day I went shopping my first backpack and pencil case with my mom. It was sooo exciting! For some […]

10 Easy Ways to Update Your Summer Outfit

Anu Hurme

For those who desire and favour bright colours, here are the perfect accessories for you! With these stunning bags and magnificent jewellery, it is easy to accessories a simple outfit, a white or a black dress perhaps. And they are not only fabulous-looking but also made in an ethically made. Which one is your favourite? There’s […]

Is leather an ecological and ethical material?

Anu Hurme

During May we have discussed leather. As stated in the first post, the question is leather a sustainable material is not a black and white one. The material contains excellent qualities, such as durability, and has been used for centuries. On the contrary, leather is challenged due to animal welfare and the toxic tanning process, […]

Top 5 Summer Party Outfits on Weecos

Anu Hurme

The party season is soon on and luckily, we have found you the perfect summer party dresses and matching jewellery for you! Whether you’re looking for a bright and colourful dress, a short or a maxi dress, a floral print or a simple style dress for your summer parties, we have it. And to finish […]

Kuula + Jylhä – Masterpieces Out Of Leather

Anu Hurme

It started approximately 10 years ago from a course of arts, held in Jyväskylä. Not only the life-long friendship between Essi Kuula and Marika Jylhä but also the mutual passion for architecture for the feet, designing “Slow Shoes”. The founders of Kuula + Jylhä don’t follow the traditional seasonal thinking of the fashion world. Instead, […]

Salmiak Studio – Bags and Jewellery With a History

Anu Hurme

The lovely, natural scent of leather comes out from the small studio, and the beautiful sunlight glitters from the surfaces of leather bags. Here, in the former tricot factory of Pyynikki, Kaisa Maansalo, the founder of Salmiak Studio, keeps her workroom and storage. The place was a dream coming true to work. At first, leather […]

Hooked on Solving Leather Puzzles

Anu Hurme

Neon orange pants. The first pair Kaisa Maansalo, the founder of Salmiak Studio, had ever made herself. It was the early 90’s, and the neon orange pants were soon companied with neon green and PVC trousers. But Kaisa still recalls the feeling after sewing her first pair, the neon orange ones, the excitement and joy […]

Pricing Finnish Design

Anu Hurme

Pricing is a tricky question entrepreneurs seem to face weekly. Where from come the costs of a 100€ bag or a 150€ dress? We opened the prices of three products. It seems that it is so common to buy a shirt for 10€, that a price tag containing three numbers, or is over 40€, is […]