DOI issue:
Nr. 148 (July 1905)
DOI article:Tallberg, Axel: The textile arts in Sweden
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20712#0130
Swedish Textiles
SOFA AND TAPESTRY
GOBELIN WEB
again without much variation. The different
counties of Sweden have in this respect, as well as
in many others, stubbornly held to their ancestors’
ideas in regard to form, colours, and composition
-—all greatly cherished and venerated heirlooms,
inherited through many generations. But this, in
some respects, unfortunate circumstance is com-
pensated for by the enormous wealth of types and
forms that constitute these heir-
looms. Not only every county, but
every parish, may quite truthfully
be said to offer the student decided
differences in artistic conceptions
and ideas of rendering, a difference
that is made distinctly prominent
by textile patterns from various parts
of the country.
It is hard to understand how these
distinct types could have been so
guardedly preserved from any par-
ticular influence upon each other
century after century, and it is surpris-
ing to find that at least the rural
parts of Sweden still maintain them
in pure state and use them in their
daily textile labours.
The modern textile art workers or
Sweden have turned this perhaps quite
unique circumstance to good by a
skilful and observant use of the textile
material that is now collected from all
corners ot the country, and upon this basis
they have managed to turn out work in which,
notwithstanding the great variety of forms and
colours which have had to be selected and put
together, the national type has been eminently
preserved.
From this grand national type our textile workers
have, during these latter years, and with great
DESIGNED BY F. LONNGREN
EXECUTED BY GJOBELS CO
TAPESTRY
BY GUNNAR WENNERBERG
SOFA AND TAPESTRY
GOBELIN WEB
again without much variation. The different
counties of Sweden have in this respect, as well as
in many others, stubbornly held to their ancestors’
ideas in regard to form, colours, and composition
-—all greatly cherished and venerated heirlooms,
inherited through many generations. But this, in
some respects, unfortunate circumstance is com-
pensated for by the enormous wealth of types and
forms that constitute these heir-
looms. Not only every county, but
every parish, may quite truthfully
be said to offer the student decided
differences in artistic conceptions
and ideas of rendering, a difference
that is made distinctly prominent
by textile patterns from various parts
of the country.
It is hard to understand how these
distinct types could have been so
guardedly preserved from any par-
ticular influence upon each other
century after century, and it is surpris-
ing to find that at least the rural
parts of Sweden still maintain them
in pure state and use them in their
daily textile labours.
The modern textile art workers or
Sweden have turned this perhaps quite
unique circumstance to good by a
skilful and observant use of the textile
material that is now collected from all
corners ot the country, and upon this basis
they have managed to turn out work in which,
notwithstanding the great variety of forms and
colours which have had to be selected and put
together, the national type has been eminently
preserved.
From this grand national type our textile workers
have, during these latter years, and with great
DESIGNED BY F. LONNGREN
EXECUTED BY GJOBELS CO
TAPESTRY
BY GUNNAR WENNERBERG