A long, narrow runner composed entirely of horizontal bands in a mottled multicolor palette—rose, orange, denim blue, cream, and touches of brown and black—with no distinct border separating field from edge. The detail view shows the banding built up from fine, irregular striations rather than a repeating printed pattern, giving the surface a variegated, almost speckled texture. Fringe is visible at the top end where the warp ends are left loose.
A pale pinkish-beige field is scattered with small notched, U-shaped and bracket-like marks in yellow and soft green, arranged in loose diagonal drifts across the surface. A narrow dark brown line frames the field, set within a wide, abrashed sage-green border finished at each end with a slim dark-brown geometric guard stripe. The overall palette stays soft and muted, with the field motifs reading almost like scattered brushstrokes against the plain ground.
A camel-toned field is set with a lattice of eight-pointed red stars edged in pink and blue diamonds, arranged in a repeating grid with two half-stars breaking the sequence at top and bottom center. The wide dark brown border repeats the same star motif in red, pink, and blue against black, giving the field and border a matched visual rhythm. A small watermark reading a website name appears in the lower left corner of the image, unrelated to the object itself.
An open ivory field is scattered with small diamond-shaped florettes in blue, rose, and mustard, evenly spaced across the ground. A broad border of interlocking rosette medallions in rose, sky blue, and green with white accents frames the field on all sides, enclosed by a slate-blue outer band and finished with warp fringe at both ends.
A sage green ground is scattered in orderly rows with small emblems - eight-pointed stars, paired hooked diamonds, and single lozenges - alternating in mustard yellow, ivory, rust orange, and dark brown. The border repeats a dense line of star-and-cross figures in the same palette against a near-black band, framed by plain ivory guard stripes, with warp fringe left loose at both ends.
Initialed SB (Sigvard Bernadotte)
An interlocking geometric lattice of soft sage-green bands stretches across an ivory ground, forming repeated H-shaped and stepped units linked by short ladder-rung bars. The pattern runs edge to edge in a continuous grid, giving the surface a quiet, architectural rhythm, while a narrow plain band of pale tone frames the composition on all sides.
Initialed "AB MMF" (AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström)
Initialed "MMF" (Märta Måås-Fjetterström)
Initialed "AB MMF, BN" (AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson)
