Hot tip if you like textiles; visit Länsmuseet Gävleborg in – you guessed it – Gävle! This is a multi story museum with modern art and standing and temporary exhibitions showing the area’s art and design. On the top floor you find their textile collections – rows and rows of woven, crocheted, knitted samples and embroidered handkerchiefs, wall hangings and shawls showing some of the innumerable versions of Swedish traditional textile techniques.
Above you can see one version of the Rosengång technique (read my previous post about it here). This is “Lös Rosengång”. The weft is woven with loose ends on each side – forming a mirrored pattern on the back. As you can see, the pattern on the reddish weave is very similar to the one in my last post about Gubbaväv / Rosengång.
The sample above from the town Mora in Dalarna is woven in a “Bunden Rosengång”. This technique gives the right side of the fabric a structure of vertical stripes (see below). Here the back is not mirrored, but have floats between the woven pattern repeats. This technique is also called Gubbaväv, from the way it is often used in weaving stylized people (Gubbar). You can read more about this in my post about Rosengång / Gubbaväv.
I hope you like the nerdy textile posts, they are for me as much as anything. So much inspiration can come from looking at woven samples – shapes, colours, techniques.
Also, looking at repeated patterns somehow make me deliriously happy!
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