Vintage Swedish Pile Weave Carpet, 1910

Sweden ca. 1970 Handwoven 14'3" x 8'4" (434 x 254 cm)

Early-20th century Swedish pile-weave carpet Initialed A, W. E.W. and 1933 100% Wool woven over a cotton foundation Sweden ca. 1933

Vintage Swedish pile weave rug Sweden, circa 1931. Initialed "HJ" Hilma Jansson. Handwoven 100% wool.

Vintage Swedish flat-weave carpet Sweden, Initialed IKJ 100% wool Handwoven.

Vintage double sided Swedish flat-weave carpet, Sweden, 1960's Measures: 146 x 192 cm.

"Green Meadows" flat-weave carpet with geometric patterns by MMF, Sweden, circa 1950. Beautiful original condition. Artist signed in corner.

Thick wool flat-weave rug, patchwork pattern. Sweden circa 1970.

Ingegerd Silow (1916-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential Swedish carpet designers of the midcentury. She was part of a second generation of twentieth century Swedish textile designers. As with her other Swedish design-world contemporaries, she would have been made acutely aware of her predecessors while she trained at the Konstfack, Stockholm’s famous art and craft school. Her training in folk craft is evident in her carpets, which are of the highest quality in terms of their impeccable materials and weaving techniques. Furthermore, her works radiate the warm minimalism...