Soumak

Swedish Pile

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.

Swedish Pile

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.

  • Galerie No13/ Summer 2019
  • Swedish Flat Weave

    Initialed: AG Brita Grahn

    An open ivory field is crossed by undulating diagonal bands in olive, slate blue, ochre and pale green, arranged in a repeating wave pattern across the surface. At the crest of each wave sits a narrow pointed oval in cream striped with dark blue, forming a vertical row of eye-like forms down each column. A plain ivory border frames the composition, with the initials AG woven into the lower left corner and the name inscribed in the lower right.

    Swedish Flat Weave

    The brown ground is organized into a grid of alternating cells: rows of split rectangles in mustard and blue banded with white and red, alternating with green ovals containing red sprigs, and diamond medallions holding small blue crosses or hourglass motifs. A narrow border of small stacked diamonds in cream, green, blue and red frames the field, with a zigzag guard stripe along the sides and plain warp fringe at both ends.

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