Cloth

White creel cloth of a pale linen, woven in two floors sewn together with a longitudinal seam in the middle. Route pattern with edge of dispute. Single spots and holes, worn along the city edges and the middle seam. "Linneduken is interwoven between the years 1865-1870 by Anette Olsson of the parish of Foss in Munkedal. She was born in 1843 and died on 10/2 1910. Anette was the daughter of August Olsson and Karolina, f. The daughter of Andersen. Initially, the family lived on Rösstorp, Lilla Foss and later leased the Foss rectory. The canvas was woven from flax grown and prepared by Anette and the family. The work took several years. If the canvas is told that it is woven in the moonlight, then probably during August and when the moon was the strongest and when the days were long with much work with harvest and other outdoor in the days. Weaving was made late about the evenings during the periods when outdoor work took most of the time. Anette married the home owner Theodor Johansson, who was descended from the Sk Möe-genus in Skree, Foss sn, near Frötorp, Munkedal, and settled there. Anette was an extremely skilled “workman” who always had his hands full. She weaved all the cloth you needed and so called man on tailors who came and sewed clothes to everyone in the household. She also weighed and sold, including towels and fabrics for the freestanding at Torreby Castle where it was used for Christmas gifts for the employees. Wine never had to remain silent and when Anette, as an old man, did not hear that the weave struck, she pounded in the floor from the upper floor, shouting “Is the weave broken?” The canvas has been used on many calas, weddings and funerals and was eventually left to the daughter Anna Stenström at Frötorp in Munkedal with the call that she should take on it. She in turn passed it on to her daughter Svea Stenström. Anette and Theodor had eight children; Hilda, Oscar, Karl-Gustav, Ernst, Axel, Agnes, Signe and Anna. Anna Stenström (1886-1959) was my grandmother and the person who donates the canvas to the Museum of Bohusläns is my aunt, Svea Stenström, Gothenburg. Monica Stenström, Lysekil." See the Bilagepärmen for photos of Anette Olsson and her children. White: Becker, J.m fl: Damask og drejl The history of Daekketöget in Denmark, Borgens forlag 1989. Damast on the table exhibition catalog from Nationalmuseum, 1990. Sene Ground, M. A.: Pattern Book for Young Founders. The art of making beautiful Drälls- as well as simple, factored and canvassy VäfKonaf diverse kinds. Faksimil 1984 Gidlunds in collaboration with Östergötland’s Association of Home Solutions. Grenander-Nyberg, G.: Lanthemmens looms. Grenander-Nyberg, G.: So they weaved. Tjörne, H.: My childhood Tjörn, p. 66.