Barbro Nilsson
BARBRO NILSSON, carpets, 2 pieces, flat weave, 238,5 x 101 resp. 181,5 x 81 cm, "Blåbär, mörk", signed AB MMF BN
(AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson). Designed in 1946. The latter is made without fringes.
Both have some wear, dirty, minor stains. The first have some damaged fringes and one missing. The latter has damaged ends.
Literature
Compare with Lundgren, Tyra: Märta Måås-Fjetterström och väv-verkstaden i Båstad, Stockholm 1968, plate 50, colour plate opposite page 65; Möller, Viggo Sten: En bok om Barbro Nilsson, Stockholm/Barcelona 1977, colour plate page 3; Liljevalchs konsthalls katalog: Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Märta flyger igen, 90 år med Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Värnamo 2009, colour plate page 149.
More information
One example of the "Bär"- carpet is in the collections of Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim.
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