Woven

Technology: Patterned double weave. Woven from black and bluetonate red wool yarn, except on a piece about 20 cm at one short side where the red wrapper is of cotton. The weft yarn is double, but the warp yarn is simple (1tr/solv). Patterned with large circular floral motifs. Sheep so that the black bottom side becomes the front. The tissue is equilateral, which is unusual in Bohuslänan fin tissues. Ie. that both sides have exactly the same pattern. Fixed-second patch with the text: “Belongs to Göteborg and Bohusläns Home Solution Association 41.” Another stiffened paper label with the text: “Gift of the Seeks Stiernstam 1921 Finn tissue from the 1850s woven by Hilva Stenström for their grandmother in the late’s home here in U-a. This Stenström weaved for various homes here in the city. B Kleberg” (first name of the bag hard to read, Hilda?) Compare to Image in the Book Homelift (Nylén 1978) p. 146 where similar patterns have been used for carpet, made in a bourgeois home in Visby in the 1820s. UM002236 is a carpet in the same pattern. Possibly they have come together into a longer tissue because the same color change is found on both. The worn. Deficiencies at the edge of the long sides. Deficiencies and holes near one short side. Deficiencies even in the middle of. Storage at one long side. Spotted and spotted color changed, the black yarn has turned brown the red more bluish.