Content: Wool, Bamboo
Color: White
The field is left entirely open, unadorned by any border or medallion, allowing the surface itself to become the subject. A dense scattering of small dark flecks breaks across the pale ground in an irregular, all-over pattern, denser in some passages than others. The inset detail highlights the texture up close, where individual tufts and speckled markings are more clearly visible against the lighter surface.
An ivory ground carries a dense allover lattice of angular palmettes and serrated leaf forms rendered in mustard gold and olive green, with small accents of pale pink and rust scattered through the diamond compartments. A narrow ivory guard band separates the field from a wide gold border filled with stepped, comb-like devices in green and cream, echoing the field's palette. The overall pattern repeats with only minor variation in scale and color placement across the field.
The rust-orange field is organized around a strict vertical axis, with mirrored pairs of angular vase-like and columnar motifs, stylized blossoming trees, and dark ivory rosettes repeated symmetrically top and bottom. A deep indigo border filled with large-scale palmettes and serrated leaves in cream, salmon, and olive encloses the field, framed by a narrow patterned guard stripe and plain outer selvage.
The deep indigo field, striated with lighter abrash bands, carries a scattered arrangement of small stylized floral sprays rendered in ochre, rust, and gold, each set on a thin stem with radiating hooked branches. Rounded corner spandrels in a warmer terracotta tone break the field at all four corners, echoing the palette of the wide rust-red border filled with dense small-scale palmettes and blossoms. Narrow guard stripes in cream and dark ground separate the main border from the field on either side.
An open apricot field is dominated by a large stepped lozenge medallion in mustard yellow and sage green, centered on a small rosette and anchored top and bottom by pendant finials. Angular palmette-and-vine cornerpieces echo the medallion's palette against the pale field, while the wide slate-blue border carries a repeating sequence of octagonal medallions and hooked pendant forms in gold, sage, and soft pink, framed by a narrow star-and-latch guard stripe.
Initialed: IS (Ingegerd Silow)
Linen foundation
Initialed "AB MMF, BN" (AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson)
Content: Cotton, Hemp
Maximum width: 78 cm (30.7 inches)
Content: Cotton, Bamboo, Hemp
Maximum width: 78 cm (30.7 inches)
The field is left essentially monochrome, divided into geometric compartments defined solely by the direction of the pile's ridged texture rather than by color. A central square panel radiates concentric squares outward, contrasting with the surrounding rectangular sections of parallel lines running in differing orientations. No border is present, and the palette stays within a narrow range of soft beige and tan throughout.
