DOI issue:
No. 240 (March 1913)
DOI article:Branting, Agnes: Modern tapestry-work in Sweden
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0131
Modern Swedish Tapestry
"TORSE TRASK DESIGNED BY HELMER OSSLUND ; WOVEN AT THE LICIUM, STOCKHOLM
( The property of the Museum fur Kunst uud Gewerbe, Hamburg)
reputation as a painter. Another example was a hibit any special uniform style, but are rather
three-panel screen with a design representing scenes expressions of the style peculiar to the artist who
in the province of Dalecarlia after a decorative paint- has composed the cartoon. In some cases, as, for
ing by our celebrated painter, Anders Zorn. This instance, the decoration, of a church, his taste must,
piece of tapestry was executed in the workshops of in a certain degree, yield to the demands made
the Licium at Stockholm in a very powerful and by the already existing style of the surroundings,
simple technique, linen and coarse woollen yarn but when he has quite a free hand, we see how
being the materials employed. In the interval the varying points of view regarding decorative textile
same establishment has carried out a piece of a far art at once come to the fore. On the one hand,
more complicated description from a portrait such strictly conventional forms are employed as
painted by Zorn specially to test the capability of to make the design appear purely geometrical,
the Swedish technique for a subject of this kind. while, on the other hand, nature is reproduced with
Modern tapestries in this country do not ex- great accuracy. Between these two extremes there
1 BELOW THE FALLS " DESIGNED BY GUSTAF FJAESTAD ; WOVEN BY MISS FJAESTAD
108
"TORSE TRASK DESIGNED BY HELMER OSSLUND ; WOVEN AT THE LICIUM, STOCKHOLM
( The property of the Museum fur Kunst uud Gewerbe, Hamburg)
reputation as a painter. Another example was a hibit any special uniform style, but are rather
three-panel screen with a design representing scenes expressions of the style peculiar to the artist who
in the province of Dalecarlia after a decorative paint- has composed the cartoon. In some cases, as, for
ing by our celebrated painter, Anders Zorn. This instance, the decoration, of a church, his taste must,
piece of tapestry was executed in the workshops of in a certain degree, yield to the demands made
the Licium at Stockholm in a very powerful and by the already existing style of the surroundings,
simple technique, linen and coarse woollen yarn but when he has quite a free hand, we see how
being the materials employed. In the interval the varying points of view regarding decorative textile
same establishment has carried out a piece of a far art at once come to the fore. On the one hand,
more complicated description from a portrait such strictly conventional forms are employed as
painted by Zorn specially to test the capability of to make the design appear purely geometrical,
the Swedish technique for a subject of this kind. while, on the other hand, nature is reproduced with
Modern tapestries in this country do not ex- great accuracy. Between these two extremes there
1 BELOW THE FALLS " DESIGNED BY GUSTAF FJAESTAD ; WOVEN BY MISS FJAESTAD
108