Coverage

Woven with wrapped knots all over the surface. The Nocks made of trapped double-folded threads. Wrap of flax, bottom of brown nut hair yarn. The yellowbeige, yellow, light blue and very bright beige nocks of cotton yarn, others of wool yarn. The bottom was woven in rips (over/under two strands). Woven in two floors, sewn in the middle with a longitudinal seam. Harbour with black bottom colour patterned with a two-sized rhombus in the colours light red, yellow toned green, light blue, yellow (which shifts hue according to the pale yarn), golden beige and very bright beige (former white?). In the middle of the quilt there is a large, upright “cut off” rhombus in red. Inside the pattern in the same colors as in the stretcher: triangles, rhombuses, hearts and two urns with stylized plants. Outside the center motif are Romber, Romber with six “legs” and at the top of hearts, against yellow-toned green bottom color. Up to two checkered frames with numbers and letters in red: “1846” and “OPAS.” OPAS = Olle Petter Andersson Three layers of woolen cloth stitched on the back and new skates dit- sewn. Worn, black dents in the stretcher almost apart. Bleached. The textiles UM026360 and UM026361 have been on the estate Gilltorp, Jörlanda. Dit moved Olof Petter Andersson, f 1840 d 11/11 1914 to work as a drone. He was born in Hammar, a member of Solberga (now Kode). He then married Sara Jonsdotter f 1849 d 11/11 1921 who was a daughter on the estate. Farm archives remain in the property of the relatives. Olle Petter Andersson was the great-grandfather of the donor. Tree tree over Gilltorpska genera, see appendix in a pearl in the magazine. The cover was on a bed along with a number of other textiles that the donor’s grandfather had standing in his part of the home and that were high in the old way. Arne Gadd has made drawings at the City Museum in Gothenburg showing the appearance of Gilltorp. The drawing is also in his book “Coast in the West.”