Carpet

Woven from black and bluetonate red wool yarn. The weft yarn is double, but the warp yarn is simple (1tr/solv). Patterned with large circular floral motifs. Sheep so that the side with a red bottom becomes the front. The carpet is equilateral, which is unusual as far as Bohuslänan pimples are concerned. Technology: Patterned double weave. Ie. that both sides have exactly the same pattern. According to old loose paper patch (broken and therefore slung): “Dac 47 Matta in fine water in the 1840 century on the plot 149 at KilEnligt sgammal, then Norra Långgatan.” Dac 47 is the subject’s number at a previous cataloguing. UM016001 is a tissue of the same quality and with the same pattern, woven by Hilva Stenström (or Hilda?) weaving for different homes in Uddevalla. It is possible that she also made this carpet, even if the time of production is not the same. Possibly they have come together into a long tissue because the same color change is found on both tissues. Carpet with the same pattern can be found in Hemslögsten (Nylén 1978) p. 146. The carpet in the book is made in a bourgeois home in Visby in the 1820s. Is the carpet part of the same tissue as UM16001 so it has belonged to the Miss Stiernstam’s grandmother (the seeds lived 1921). Very worn. Big hole near one short side. Several more holes and flaws. Several lags (stops) along the middle and edges. Big spots. A stained spot, the black yarn has turned brown. Literature: Arlenborg, Ingrid/Feltzing, Ulla. Coin weave Bohuslänan tradition modern crafts of art. Berg, Kerstin. Selma Johansson - a Venerable and a Homestead Scientist in Southern Bohusländer, Scriptures issued by the Museum of Bohusläns and the Bohusläns Home Association No 41, Uddevalla 1991, p. 232-242. Head of Maches, Annelie. Weaving pile fabric in a light way, p. 62 f. Nylén, Anna-Maja Homeheight, Lund 1978. According to information during study visits from the commissioner Berit Eldvik, the Nordic Museum, this carpet, like UM016001, is very likely to be woven by the same person. BE has seen a number of similar things before. Not least the wear also suggests it has been a carpet. The pattern, like the colours, is typical of the 1850s. The yarn is certainly professionally colored. The pattern of the carpet is probably taken from one of the dozen handbooks in pattern weaving published between the years 1826-1843 by the Ekenmark family from Östergötland. The model of this pattern is probably published in the 1840s. The dating task for the pattern from A-M Nylén’s book “Homeheight,” p. 146, mentioned above, is probably wrong and should be 1850s. From the Handwritten Catalogue 1957-1958: Mat, Finnish tissue 1840-t. Dimensions. c: a 177 x 92 cm. Ylle, black o red. The yarn in the tissue considerably broken. Stored in several places. (Uddevalla)