Lena Malmström was born in Turku. Her family moved to Helsinki when she was only two years of age. Her father was a textile engineer and worked for the United wool factories of Helsinki and Hyvinkää. As a young lady, she became very familiar with the wool factory. She was admitted as an art graduate to Atheneum Art school and chose textile design as her master’s program. During her studies, she had already started to create her own woollen designs which were to become an item even before she graduated.
