Märta Måås-Fjetterström
matto, "Tornet", knotted pile, ca 311 x 203-209 cm, signed AB MMF.
Designed in 1931, woven after 1941. In the book "Look at the carpets - it's me, 100 years of textile art - since 1919, Märta Måås-Fjetterström" Angelica Persson at MMF AB writes : "On her return from New York in 1931, MMF designed the knotted pile rug Tornet. It was displayed for a few days in Stockholm and Gothenburg before it was shipped to the Swedish Exhibition of Industrial Arts & Crafts in London".
Little partly a little harder wear, stains. The sides and ends have minor fold wear, one end has minor colour run areas. Possibly later flax edge and fringes at one end.
Kirjallisuus
Compare with Mattor och Vävnader - Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Barbro Nilsson, Marianne Richter, Ann-Mari Forsberg, Båstad 1956, plate 10; Lundgren, Tyra: Märta Måås-Fjetterström och väv-verkstaden i Båstad, Stockholm 1968, plate 37; Skrifter från Kungl. Husgerådskammaren 20, Nisser-Dalman, Margareta, Stockholm 2019, No. 28, pages 37, 58; Angelica Persson, Ehrling Braghfors, Ulrik Swedrup: Se på mattorna - det är jag, 100 år av textil konst - sedan 1919, Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Båstad/Mölndal 2019, colour plates pages 115, 138.