Woven

Part of the cover in a crab base reaches, originally two floors sewn on the middle with longitudinal seam, where today one remains. Probably divided in connection with a succession. The bottom was woven in a panama in a light beige, unbleached, loamy and pattern element of two-wire wool yarn. Full surface pattern consisting of vertical stripes in blue with jagged rhombus in red. Inside the “jagged” rhombs are smaller rhombs in lighter red. Plant Yellow The blue tint shifts in green. A simple sheep on the short sides. On the back it can be seen that the tissue’s pattern element has been in green and red. Today, the yellow element in the green color is so pale on the front that one experiences the wrapping as blue. The edges of the tissue are damaged and opaque. A mending/padding with lighter red wool yarn on the front. A metal nub was attached to one long side. Perhaps the tissue has been used as a wall ornament in recent times. On the back sat a paper patch with handwritten text: “This cover is woven in Skäggestorp in Solberga in the late 1700s by my grandmother’s mother.” The tissue is included in a gift where the donor gives the following information: The donor, f. 1903, is fertile from Korsgård in Öds1903 sn. Her mother was Karolina Berntsson (born c. 1860-80?). Karolina’s mother was Anna Britta from Solberga sn. (born about 1820-40?) “It was Anna-Britta who had the tissue from Solberga to Korsgården, Ödsmåst. It should thus be from the turn of 1700-1800.” (Woven by Anna-Britta’s mother.) For further information about the donor see UM027769 Other tissues in crab basins in the joints: UM020850, UM020851. Literature: Berg, K. (1991): Selma Johansson - Averagus and Homestead Scientists in Southern Bohusländer Writings from Bohusläns Museum and Bohusläns Homesteads Association No. 41, Uddevalla The President 182-183. Lychou, K. (1996): Homelift and Folk Art in Bohuslän, Warne Publishers, Partille, p. 154-155. Nylén, A-M (1978): Hometime, Lund, p. 166-169.