Soumak

Pile and Flat Weave techinique

Signed 'IHF' (Ingrid Hellman–Knafve)

Initialed "AB MMF" (AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström)

Initialed "AB MMF, BN" (AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson)

Initialed "AB MMF, BN" (AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson)

An overall diamond lattice fills the sand-colored field, each compartment centered with a small polychrome blossom in rust, mustard, teal, and blush pink. The border repeats a related trellis of tiny florets on a soft lavender ground, framed by narrow rust and dusty pink guard stripes. The pattern is dense and regular, running edge to edge without a medallion or open center.

Signed 'MG' (Marta Grahn)

An open golden field is scattered with small floral sprigs and star-like blossoms arranged in loose diagonal rows, rendered in soft blues, rose, and cream. A scalloped ivory band frames the field, followed by a broad slate-gray border and a slim patterned guard stripe at the outer edge. The corners are left plain, allowing the wavy inner scallop to read as the field's true boundary.

Commissioned for the boardroom at the Swedish Sugar Company's head office at Fersons in Malmo, Sweden

An ivory ground carries a symmetrical vertical arrangement of large stylized blossoms—pink asters, a blue tulip, sunflowers, and pomegranate-like forms—joined by curling olive-green stems and leaves. The border repeats a scrolling floral vine on ivory between narrow gold and blue stripes, and the letters "S G" appear woven into the right-hand guard band. Colors throughout are soft: rose pink, cornflower blue, mustard yellow, and olive green against the pale field.

Signed 'BG' (Brita Grahn)

An overall trellis lattice of pale sage-green interlocking quatrefoils fills the field against an ivory ground, each medallion accented with a small mustard-yellow leaf-shaped touch at its center. A plain narrow band in the same sage tone frames the composition, with the flat-woven ivory ends finishing in loosely knotted fringe. The initials appear woven in gray in the lower corner of the field.

The field is organized into a grid of rectangular compartments, each enclosing a stylized fretwork or key motif rendered in alternating sage green, soft gold, and dusty pink against an ivory ground, with each cell outlined by a fine dotted border. A narrow guard band of small linked hooks or ticking marks separates the compartments from the plain sage-green outer border, itself edged by a striped band in brown and cream. The overall composition reads as a patchwork of small framed panels rather than a continuous field.