I have 5 years of education as a furniture designer and interior architect, and have throughout all these years had male teachers who largely refer to male designers in teaching. I have asked the question to myself many times, why haven’t I learn about the women in design and why have we not learned more about softer materials in a furniture design education. It’s seems to me that some still value harder material as wood and metal higher that textiles, and in the course of history this I nothing new. Numerous textile-materials has been seen as less worth because of its connotations to women and the feminine, who also have been viewed as «less than».