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Making Rya Modern: Age Faith-Ell
At mid-century, Age Faith-Ell was one of Sweden’s more internationally-oriented designers. She had studied and lived abroad for a number of years, and when she returned, worked largely for the Swedish...
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A checkered story: Ingrid Dessau
One of the attractions of reading the children’s book, Winnie the Pooh is that, even as a child, and even if too young to know the word “philosophical,” a reader intuits that this particular bear is a...
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Big rugs and a big vision: Birgitta Hagnell-Lindén
The province of Örebro lies in the middle of the country, due west of Stockholm. This is an area I have not previously explored, and I have been eager to find rugs designed at mid-century by the Örebro...
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Merry Christmas! God Jul!
Twigs and stars and colors woven together– what a joyful celebration of this time of year! When the trees are bare, and we all need a little color, this small tapestry by Barbro Nilsson, offers a...
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Marianne Richter’s Fläkt rug – a celebration of flossa weaving
Coming up for auction in Stockholm on May 10 at Bukowskis auction house is a major piece of weaving by Swedish designer, Marianne Richter. This carpet , made of knotted pile (“flossa” in Swedish) was...
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God Jul!
This image of a Christmas tree by a Swedish designer I cannot identify, in slightly atypical but energetic colors and with a bit of damage to it (top and fringe)– feels just about right for me as a...
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A Weaving Life in Rural Postwar Sweden: Kerstin Ekengren
Born Kerstin Ulla Margareta Holm in 1917, this designer grew up in Saltsjöbaden, in the Stockholm archipelago. She, and her older and younger brother all studied at the Higher Industrial Arts School...
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Further explorations in form: Kerstin Ekengren
Having built a modest modern home in a village just outside Järvsö, in Gavelborg county in north central Sweden with her husband in 1956, Kerstin Ekengren became fully established in her new home...
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Making church textiles sing: Margit Ahl Westin
Working in Våsterbotten, one of the most northern Swedish provinces, from the 1960s-through to the 1990s, Margit Westin designed textiles for many churches around Umeå. Perhaps paradoxically, her...
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A much darker Christmas
I wish all of you joy in your families and communities this Christmas and New Year, but am also bruised by the violent ongoing bombardment in Gaza, following the brutal Hamas attack on Israel, and...
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