Soumak

Swedish Flat Weave

An open, unadorned field in a uniform olive green fills the square format, framed by a plain ivory band and an outer chain of alternating square medallions in mauve, sage, and powder blue outlined in cream, each set against small diamond links. A dark olive-brown outer border encloses the whole composition, echoing the field tone and giving the piece a quiet, symmetrical structure.

Swedish Flat Weave

The field is left entirely open to an all-over speckled surface, with no defined border or central motif separating it from the ground. Flecks of ivory, slate blue, rust, teal, and charcoal intermingle throughout in an even, textured scatter, giving a uniform mottled effect from edge to edge. A close-up inset in the lower corner shows the same mixture of colors at a magnified scale, revealing the individual strands that make up the overall pattern.

Finnish Flat Weave

A broad plain ground in warm taupe surrounds a rectangular inset panel filled with an irregular patchwork of small blocks, bars and stripes in coral, sage green, ochre, cream and brown. Within that panel the geometry shifts freely, some blocks striped horizontally, others left solid, with a cluster of pale flecked texture breaking the grid near the upper portion. The outer field carries only a fine striated texture running horizontally, framed by a narrow banded border at top and bottom in the same muted brown tones.

Finnish Flat Weave

Flat-weave and Loop Technique

The field is left entirely open, a plain expanse of warm taupe with a faint, irregular striping that runs the length of the piece. Narrow bands in a slightly darker tone frame the top and bottom edges, echoing the field's texture rather than introducing pattern. Loose, undyed fringe spills from both ends, its uneven lengths and slight fraying left exposed.

Swedish Flat Weave

The field is filled edge to edge with a repeating lattice of interlocking rotated squares, each corner turned into a small hooked bracket, rendered in olive-gold against a soft sage-green ground. At the center of every diamond compartment sits a single pale yellow dot, creating a regular grid of accent points across the surface. There is no distinct border; the pattern runs uninterrupted to the fringed edges on all sides.

Swedish Flat Weave

Double-sided

One face presents an open, pale grey-green field divided by thin vertical striations, framed by a checkerboard border alternating mustard, slate blue and ivory squares. The reverse reverses the palette, setting the same striped ground in warm ochre against an identical checked border, so the two sides read as inverted companions of one another. Both borders terminate in a narrow ivory band patterned with small stepped motifs before meeting the outer edge.

Swedish Flat Weave

The field is composed of a grid of flatly rendered rectangular blocks in muted rose, slate blue, ochre, sage green, taupe, and ivory, each panel showing fine horizontal striations that give a subtly woven, patchwork-like texture. A narrow plain brown band frames the entire composition, with no additional border ornament or medallion, leaving the checkerboard arrangement itself as the sole design. No inscriptions or signatures are visible.

Swedish Flat Weave

The field is divided into three vertical panels separated by narrow solid bands, each panel filled with a grid of small checkerboard squares interspersed with larger blocks of flat color. The palette moves through deep indigo, slate blue, and steel gray, punctuated by warm brown and tan squares, with a pale cream-and-brown checkered band crossing the central panel. A plain outer border in dark brown and blue-black frames the composition, and small woven initials appear in the lower corners.

Swedish Flat Weave

A largely open, undyed-toned ground is divided by a faint grid of thin lines into rows of rectangular compartments, with four horizontal bands of small colored squares in red, black, green, gold, and pale blue crossing the field at regular intervals. These bands, framed by narrow ivory and blue stripes, are echoed at both the top and bottom edges, giving the composition a repeating, ladder-like rhythm across an otherwise plain surface.

Swedish Flat Weave

A gridded field on a slate-gray ground carries rows of small rectangular blocks in soft pink, celery green, powder blue, and tan, each framed with an inner outline suggesting a stitched or notched border. Dark charcoal bars cross at regular intervals to form the grid, giving the whole surface a checkerboard rhythm. A narrow plain gray band runs around the perimeter, finished with a flat fringe of undyed and gray threads at both ends; small initials appear woven into the lower left corner of the field.

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