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SW 18
SW 18

Carriage Cushion Cover (Bands of Rosettes and Stars)

SW 18

Sweden, Scania, Jerrestads district

first half of the 19th century

SW 18

Carriage Cushion Cover (Bands of Rosettes and Stars)

SW 18

Sweden, Scania, Jerrestads district

first half of the 19th century

interlocked tapestry

55 x 102 cm

This tapestry has a design of wide bands separated by narrow stripes of the heart-and-hourglass motif, which was also much used in Ingelstads. In museum collections there are bed covers – which only exist in a limited number of patterns and from a few regions – with similar designs.

V. Hansen, Swedish Textile Art: Traditional Marriage Weavings from Scania: The Khalili Collection, London 1996, cat. 31, pp.96–7.