South American

Swedish Kilim - Made of old textiles embroidered pattern.

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.

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.

A long narrow runner divided into horizontal bands, each filled with an interlocking diamond lattice worked in cream against a dark charcoal-brown ground, with scattered accents of rust red and touches of green within the lattice cells. A narrow guard border of small serrated triangles in cream and red runs along both long edges, and the diamond scale shifts noticeably from panel to panel, giving the field an irregular, hand-adjusted rhythm. The end is finished with a plain fringe.

A long narrow runner organized as an all-over checkerboard grid, alternating solid dark green squares with squares filled in rust, cream, and brown patterned motifs including small x-shapes, striations, and scattered dot clusters. The border is minimal, allowing the checkerboard to run nearly edge to edge, with slight irregularities in the placement and coloring of the patterned squares giving the grid a handmade, uneven rhythm.

A dark charcoal ground is overlaid with an allover diamond lattice formed by crossing ivory and taupe bands, each intersection accented with small red or ochre lozenges. Flanking the field, narrow borders carry a repeating stepped arrow or chevron motif in the same pale tones, echoed in a row of X-shaped forms along the lower edge. The overall effect is a dense, evenly repeated trellis pattern with only subtle color variation between the woven bands.

A long, narrow runner divided into a grid of dark charcoal squares, each centered with an angular X-shaped motif in ivory, rust, and ochre, alternating with bands of small diamond and lattice patterning in cream and red. Horizontal registers separate the checkerboard sections, and the composition ends in a plain woven selvage with loose warp fringe at both ends. The palette stays consistent throughout - deep gray-black ground, warm rust-red, and undyed cream - with no border enclosing the field, giving the piece an open, continuous format.

The field is composed of horizontal bands of finely flecked, heathered color, moving from ivory and oatmeal through tan and taupe, with intermittent threads of mustard yellow woven through the striations. There is no central medallion or corner ornament; the design relies entirely on the tonal shifts of the striping, bordered by a narrow plain edge in a matching warm neutral.

Initialed: UP (Ulla Parkdal)

A grid of flat rectangular blocks in ochre, amber, gray, and warm brown surrounds a large ivory panel set slightly off-center within the composition. Small white tabs project like tick-marks along the edges of the ivory field, breaking its outline against the surrounding squares. Two horizontal bands of orange cross the upper and lower portions of the field, and a woven monogram appears in the upper right corner.