An open, undecorated field in a warm ivory tone fills the center, framed by a slender rust line and a broader mauve band. Beyond this sits a wide olive-green border, then narrow gold and deep brown outer bands, giving the whole piece a stacked, concentric arrangement of solid color fields rather than figurative ornament. The palette is muted and earthy throughout, with subtle striations in the pile lending a soft, brushed texture to each colored zone.
The deep blue field is covered edge to edge in a dense allover lattice of small palmettes, rosettes, and curling vine tendrils rendered in salmon pink, ivory, soft blue, and muted green. A wide salmon-pink border frames the composition with a repeating palmette-and-vine pattern, flanked by narrower ivory and blue guard stripes carrying floral vinework. The overall effect is a tightly unified, evenly saturated surface with no open ground and no visible inscription.
The field, a warm rust-brown ground, is filled with an all-over lattice of pointed ivory and pale-gold medallions linked by scrolling vine work, with larger palmette forms marking the vertical axis top and bottom. A broad ivory border of repeating rosettes and leafy tendrils frames the field, flanked by narrower guard stripes carrying a small-scale floral vine in muted rose, green and brown tones. Color throughout shifts gently from deeper rust at the center toward softer camel and ivory near the edges.
Initialed "AB MMF" (AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström)
A plain camel-toned field is scattered evenly with small ivory dots, framed by a narrow dark brown line. The border presents a flame-stitch or ikat-like zigzag pattern in cream, tan, and dark brown, running continuously around all four sides. The overall palette stays within warm neutrals, with the border's serrated motif providing the field's only contrast in pattern.
Embossed Diamond-Weave Raffia
A close-up detail circled in the lower corner isolates the plain diagonal interlacing that forms the surface's diamond pattern across the whole field, with individual strands crossing at even, repeating intervals. The overall surface reads as a uniform pale straw tone, its texture built entirely from the ridged, slightly irregular width of each woven strip catching the light.
Color 8
100% Cotton
The surface presents an all-over pattern of fine horizontal ribbing in off-white, interrupted at regular intervals by short, slanted dashes of charcoal grey that read almost like a broken diagonal stripe across the banding. A circular inset in the lower right offers a magnified view of the same texture, revealing the tight, even ridges and the way the dark accent threads sit slightly raised against the pale ground. No border or central motif interrupts the field; the pattern runs continuously edge to edge.
An allover field with no border, worked in fine horizontal striations of ivory, camel, and dark brown that build a mottled, cloud-like pattern across the surface. Irregular patches of rust and chocolate brown drift over the paler ground, giving the impression of texture rather than a fixed motif. A circular inset in the lower corner offers a close-up view of the same striated surface and its color transitions.
