DOI Heft:
Nr. 335 (April 1925)
DOI Artikel:van Gleef, Eugene: A Finnish national art
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0031
mceRnACionAL.
ONE OF THE OLDEST KNOWN RYAS. NOTE THE DATE 1708 WOVEN INTO THE RUG
Reproduced by permission 0/ Galerie Horhammer, Helsingfors
become so marked as to give rise to a controversy areas appear without knots. Since they were
relative to the origin of the Rya. commonly used as wall tapestries or counterpanes,
The Rya is not unlike the Oriental rug in its density of weave was not an important requisite,
general appearance, but differs in the details of As the weaver's skill developed and the rugs
construction, in the purpose to which it is put and attained the plane of a highly appreciated art,
in the density of weave. The knots are farther they were coveted as bridal gifts. In the early
apart and in some of the oldest pieces considerable eighteenth century the marriage contract fre-
APRIL 1925
thirty-one
ONE OF THE OLDEST KNOWN RYAS. NOTE THE DATE 1708 WOVEN INTO THE RUG
Reproduced by permission 0/ Galerie Horhammer, Helsingfors
become so marked as to give rise to a controversy areas appear without knots. Since they were
relative to the origin of the Rya. commonly used as wall tapestries or counterpanes,
The Rya is not unlike the Oriental rug in its density of weave was not an important requisite,
general appearance, but differs in the details of As the weaver's skill developed and the rugs
construction, in the purpose to which it is put and attained the plane of a highly appreciated art,
in the density of weave. The knots are farther they were coveted as bridal gifts. In the early
apart and in some of the oldest pieces considerable eighteenth century the marriage contract fre-
APRIL 1925
thirty-one