Studio: international art (35.1905)

Swedish Textiles

EMBROIDERED CUSHION

success, directed their attention to modern con-
ceptions and new ideas. Our technical schools
have all eagerly taken up this highly important
matter, and many artists of repute have devoted
their splendid ability to the recent movements
which have brought the world’s textile arts to the
magnificent standard of the present day.

The result of these en-
couraging exertions has,
indeed, been very interest-
ing. We have now in
Sweden every year a great
number of exhibitions of
the textile and other art-
industrial branches of our
craft- and home-“slojd” not
only in Stockholm and the
larger towns, but even in
the smaller ones, and not
seldom in out-of-the-way
country villages. The
women of Sweden, old and
young, are making intelli-
gent and skilful use of the
modern designs provided
by our artists and our
schools, and a great number
of societies have, in addition
to the many that already
before existed, constituted
themselves in all parts of cushion

the country, all with the
common object of further-
ing these charming arts,
which always brighten and
gladden our homes.

The chief factor in regard
to the above-mentioned
national type of modern
Swedish textiles, still much
practised nearly every-
where in the country, is
doubtless the existence of
the now world-famed North-
ern Museum at Stockholm,
which possesses by far the
most extensive collection of
patterns and materials of
antique Swedish and Nor-
wegian textiles in the world
This collection may safely
be said to have given mo-
tives to the greater part of
the new designs belonging
to the national types in our modern textiles.

The most important of the societies working to
the benefit of textile-“slojds ” are, among the older
ones, Svenska Slojdforeningen and Handarbetets
vanner.

Svenska Slojdforeningen has now been in
active work for forty-five years, and counts about

designed by f. lonngren
EXECUTED BY GJOBELS CO.

BY MRS. WESTMAN