Carriage Cushion Cover (Octagon and Diamond Lattice with People)

Location: Sweden, Scania, Herrestads district

Materials: interlocked tapestry

Dimensions: 64.5 x 96 cm

Accession Number: SW 17

Other Notes:

This very colourful carriage cushion cover is almost identical in both design and colour to the seat cushion cover SW 89. Here there are men and women in the upper and lower rows, but only men in the central row.

Bibliography:

V. Hansen, Swedish Textile Art: Traditional Marriage Weavings from Scania: The Khalili Collection, London 1996, cat. 27, pp.83–7.