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SW 17
SW 17

Carriage Cushion Cover (Octagon and Diamond Lattice with People)

SW 17

Sweden, Scania, Herrestads district

first half of the 19th century

SW 17

Carriage Cushion Cover (Octagon and Diamond Lattice with People)

SW 17

Sweden, Scania, Herrestads district

first half of the 19th century

interlocked tapestry

64.5 x 96 cm

This very colourful carriage cushion cover is almost identical in both design and colour to the seat cushion cover SW 89. Here there are men and women in the upper and lower rows, but only men in the central row.

V. Hansen, Swedish Textile Art: Traditional Marriage Weavings from Scania: The Khalili Collection, London 1996, cat. 27, pp.83–7.