DOI Heft:
Nr. 148 (July 1905)
DOI Artikel:Tallberg, Axel: The textile arts in Sweden
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20712#0134
Swedish Textiles
BY A. FRYKHOLM
one thousand paying members. The society
enjoys a substantial and well-deserved support from
the Government, and his Majesty the King of
Sweden and Norway is its foremost honorary
member and patron. This society has not
exclusively devoted its efforts to the encourage-
ment of home arts; it has very success-
fully endeavoured to bring refinement and
artistic taste into handiwork and crafts. The
very frequent exhibitions of the society are as
interesting as they are instructive. Each of these
exhibitions comprises generally but one branch,
and often only one section of a branch or
subject belonging to the sphere of art that forms
the object of the society’s exertions. They
are now and then varied by excellent shows
of antique works in suitable lines, either retro-
spective or else dealing with
some particular period in
the history of artistic handi-
crafts.
But perhaps the greatest
and most important work
done by this society towards
progressive refinement in
home arts and crafts is to
be found in the many in-
structive publications it
continually issues. These
publications consist of
books, pamphlets, designs,
and drawings which are
given away and forwarded
to all those who apply for
them. The society has in
this matter even gone so
far as to keep a register of
116
every skilled craftsman in
the country, and to these
workers publications,
designs, and drawings are
forwarded free without
special application.
During recent years this
truly beneficent national
society has developed into
a really far-reaching power
that always keeps an
eye upon the leanings
of our art handicrafts and
home-arts, and it uses every
opportunity to conduct the
evolution from the tasteless
tendencies of the recent
past into the safe and desirable channels that lead
to future perfection.
The present energetic manager and secretary of
the society, Dr. Folcker, is one of our very best
authorities upon the subject of home arts and in-
dustries, a fact which is made quite evident by the
splendid manner in which he manages the editing
of the society’s interesting and instructive publi-
cations.
The second society, Handarbetets \anner, became
incorporated in 1874, chiefly under the initiative of
some ladies who had become greatly impressed by
the outspoken opinion of the famous art connois-
seur Jakob Falke at the Vienna Exhibition in
1872. After having absolutely condemned the
home - arts as then practised by European
women, he said that “The only works of the
WALLHANGING
BY NILS LUNDSTROM
BY A. FRYKHOLM
one thousand paying members. The society
enjoys a substantial and well-deserved support from
the Government, and his Majesty the King of
Sweden and Norway is its foremost honorary
member and patron. This society has not
exclusively devoted its efforts to the encourage-
ment of home arts; it has very success-
fully endeavoured to bring refinement and
artistic taste into handiwork and crafts. The
very frequent exhibitions of the society are as
interesting as they are instructive. Each of these
exhibitions comprises generally but one branch,
and often only one section of a branch or
subject belonging to the sphere of art that forms
the object of the society’s exertions. They
are now and then varied by excellent shows
of antique works in suitable lines, either retro-
spective or else dealing with
some particular period in
the history of artistic handi-
crafts.
But perhaps the greatest
and most important work
done by this society towards
progressive refinement in
home arts and crafts is to
be found in the many in-
structive publications it
continually issues. These
publications consist of
books, pamphlets, designs,
and drawings which are
given away and forwarded
to all those who apply for
them. The society has in
this matter even gone so
far as to keep a register of
116
every skilled craftsman in
the country, and to these
workers publications,
designs, and drawings are
forwarded free without
special application.
During recent years this
truly beneficent national
society has developed into
a really far-reaching power
that always keeps an
eye upon the leanings
of our art handicrafts and
home-arts, and it uses every
opportunity to conduct the
evolution from the tasteless
tendencies of the recent
past into the safe and desirable channels that lead
to future perfection.
The present energetic manager and secretary of
the society, Dr. Folcker, is one of our very best
authorities upon the subject of home arts and in-
dustries, a fact which is made quite evident by the
splendid manner in which he manages the editing
of the society’s interesting and instructive publi-
cations.
The second society, Handarbetets \anner, became
incorporated in 1874, chiefly under the initiative of
some ladies who had become greatly impressed by
the outspoken opinion of the famous art connois-
seur Jakob Falke at the Vienna Exhibition in
1872. After having absolutely condemned the
home - arts as then practised by European
women, he said that “The only works of the
WALLHANGING
BY NILS LUNDSTROM