Carpet

Part of carpet, sewn up by five parts, pattern tuned; single, multi-color wool yarn with star pattern. Thinner twine in the direction of warfare than in the wrapped. Most stitches are sewn with filament of cellulosic material. Dominating colours are green, brownish red and unbleached, but there is also a yellow-brown, a red (raspberry red) and a dark gray-black colour. The lusts of the colours are similar on the front and back. Does it indicate that it is mainly plant colours used? The tissue originated at a time when the synthetics colours came into the market. Since these first had poor light properties, the colours on one side should have been much more bleached than it is if synthetics were used. The seams are hand-sewn, different widths on the seams. Two opposite edges have folded stitches, the other two sides are unevenly fringed with both protracted weft threads and warp threads. On one of the five parts it can be seen that the original width is 84 cm. Wear, holes, reinforcements and layouts. A corner is a bit pale. The carpet is called Scotch when many carpets were woven in the textile industry in Scotland, or Kidderminster Carpet after the town in Worcestershire, England where many carpets were also made. In North America, the carpets are called Ingrain carpets. These reversible carpets were popular from the late 17th century to the early 19th century when, among others. a. William Morris drew designs for this technique. According to the donor’s aunt Dagmar Thorburn, the carpet was in the villa Solhagen in Uddevalla, the residence of the donor’s grandfather Alban Thorburn. The carpet, according to family tradition, would be woven “in the attic of Sörvik,” the residence of Robert Thorburn, Uddevalla. However, as the carpet is machine-woven and of a typical British type, it is more reasonable to assume that it was purchased in Scotland at some point in the later half of the 1800s in connection with the Thorburn family’s contacts or visits there. See Annex UM31475 for article “What is an ingrain carpet?,” A Brief History of English Carpets "and colour photo of part of Scottish carpet from Gustav V’s sterbhus, Nordic Museum.