Soumak

The field presents a stacked sequence of horizontal bands alternating gold-ochre and grey striations, each segment pinched inward at the sides to form a lattice of pointed, arrow-like shapes running the length of the piece. Flanking this on both sides is a border of serrated triangular peaks in mustard yellow, ivory, and warm brown, arranged in a continuous zigzag. The palette throughout stays within ochre, grey, ivory, and brown, with the striped centre and triangular border reading as two distinct rhythms bound by a plain narrow outer edge.

Initialed "MMF" (Märta Måås-Fjetterström)

A flatwoven ground in unbleached ivory is crossed by an asymmetric arrangement of diagonal and horizontal bands in soft orange, pale yellow, taupe, and charcoal-gray. The composition reads as a series of interlocking parallelograms shifting across the field, with no enclosing border, the design running to the edges and finishing in loose warp fringe at both ends.

A long narrow runner composed of horizontal bands in a soft palette of sage green, sand, terracotta, rust, and slate blue. Each stripe carries its own small-scale motif — orange and rust squares, cream cross-and-notch forms, blue interlocking hooks, and dark chevron-like marks — arranged in a mirrored sequence from top to bottom, with plain rust bands framing each end and loose fringe at both edges.

A grid of twenty octagonal medallions, each divided into four triangular quadrants shading from ivory to soft yellow with occasional coral-pink accents, set against a warm brown ground crossed by a stepped lattice. A plain brown border frames the field, edged with a thin pale stripe, and initials are woven into the lower right corner near the fringe.

Provenance: Elsa Bengtsson & Georg Holmqvist, Goteborg

A steady teal-blue border frames an interlocking grid of stepped, cross-shaped blocks in mulberry, orange, mustard, lavender, teal and cream. Each block centers on a small square accent, alternately white or a deep contrasting tone, creating a quiet secondary rhythm across the field. A small woven monogram appears in the upper right corner of the border.

A soft blue oval medallion floats within an ivory ground, outlined by a single band that echoes the outer border's palette. Surrounding it, rows of stylized floral and blossom forms in dusty pink, moss green, taupe, and pale turquoise alternate with small checkered squares, all set against the same ivory field, and framed by a plain slate-blue border edged in narrow dark stripes. The corners and edges show slight compression of the motifs where the pattern turns, and a fringe of unknotted warp ends the composition at top and bottom.

A coral-red field carries an all-over grid of small diamond-shaped medallions rendered in cream, olive, and slate-blue, each with a burst of short radiating strokes around a central mark. The narrow borders at top and bottom are set apart in olive-green with a zigzag chevron line and a thin band of blue, framing the field without side borders shown. The repeat is regular and evenly spaced across the full width and length.

An open camel-toned field is scattered with small motifs arranged in a loose grid: clusters of tiny checkered squares in slate blue, coral, and cream, paired with simple key-shaped hooks and two small orange medallions with pale outlines set along the vertical axis. The border is built from concentric bands of navy, mustard, slate blue, and a stepped ivory-and-blue checkerboard stripe, framed by a solid dark outer edge. The overall palette stays within camel, navy, mustard, slate, and touches of coral against the open ground.