DOI issue:
No. 365 (August 1923)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21398#0139
STUDIO-TALK
CHRISTIANIA.—From time imme-
morial weaving has been one of the
daily occupations of women in the Northern
home. In the Nordiske Museum, Copen-
hagen, there are specimens dating from the
Bronze Age which vie with anything done
now, and here in the Museum at Chris-
tiania there is a twelfth century tapestry
representing a warrior on horseback with
colours as bright and fresh as if it had just
left the loom—for centuries it had lain con-
cealed between two layers of flooring in a
church, probablyasaprotectionagainstfrost.
Weaving still flourishes in the home-
steads of our valleys, and good examples
CUSHION COVERS. DESIGNED AND
EXECUTED BY SUNNI MUNDAL
are to be found in our museums. The four
cushion covers shown in our illustration
are the work of Sunni Mundal, a member
of one of the oldest families in the Sogn
district—the Mundal hotel is no doubt
familiar to many English tourists. She is
now settled in Christiania and has several
weavers working with her in her studio.
Her work owes its special charm to the
fine colouration and the purely ornamental
design. She uses dyes extracted from
plants and mixes her colours to the re-
quired shades before carding and spinning,
the yarn which results having a softness
which is unequalled. W. P.
119
CHRISTIANIA.—From time imme-
morial weaving has been one of the
daily occupations of women in the Northern
home. In the Nordiske Museum, Copen-
hagen, there are specimens dating from the
Bronze Age which vie with anything done
now, and here in the Museum at Chris-
tiania there is a twelfth century tapestry
representing a warrior on horseback with
colours as bright and fresh as if it had just
left the loom—for centuries it had lain con-
cealed between two layers of flooring in a
church, probablyasaprotectionagainstfrost.
Weaving still flourishes in the home-
steads of our valleys, and good examples
CUSHION COVERS. DESIGNED AND
EXECUTED BY SUNNI MUNDAL
are to be found in our museums. The four
cushion covers shown in our illustration
are the work of Sunni Mundal, a member
of one of the oldest families in the Sogn
district—the Mundal hotel is no doubt
familiar to many English tourists. She is
now settled in Christiania and has several
weavers working with her in her studio.
Her work owes its special charm to the
fine colouration and the purely ornamental
design. She uses dyes extracted from
plants and mixes her colours to the re-
quired shades before carding and spinning,
the yarn which results having a softness
which is unequalled. W. P.
119