Beige ground with black abstract design. Labeled: "Karl Axel Pehrson/ Nordiska Kompaniet's Textilkammare/ "Delfinisk Rorelse"/ 1953/ Made in Sweden/ Handprinted"

Bolt of white fabric with black geometric gridlike pattern printed. Selvedge edge reads "TEXTILKAMMARE MADE IN SWEDEN "14/6" ALVAR AALTO DESIGN"

Printed wall hanging panel, entitled "Torn & Paradisträd" (Tower and Paradise Tree) (title sometimes given as "Livets träd" (Life's tree)). Screen-printed with bold stylized design of a flame-haired woman and a rooster standing underneath a large tree with figures, a birdcage, bird's nest, birds, church, and owl amongst the branches, steeple-like tower, and sun, all with heavy black outlines; motifs in raspberry-pink, blue, teal, yellow, brown, and beige on raspberry-pink ground with light and dark brown saw-tooth edge border; signed at lower right "Stig L." Hemmed sides, rod pockets at top and bottom.

Printed cotton with bold geometric design of interlocking lines and triangles, predominantly in blues, with black, green, and yellow on white ground.

White ground with black print of naturalistic leaves and tree trunk. Full selvedge width, selvedge printed: "Classic-Contemporary, Ljungbergs I Floda, Sweden, Hassel Design, Viola Grasten"

Length of furnishing fabric with bold, large-scale pattern of black palm fronds on yellow ground. Selvedge reads:  " 'Papua' Stig Lindberg design NK's Textilekammare Made in Sweden"

Abstract design of triangles arranged in circular swirls, printed in two shades of blue, green, purple and black. Printed in selvedge: "Oomph / Komp Av Viola Grasten / NK's Texilkammare"

Large-scale design in dark brown on white with central tree trunk with angular branches to either side and dense arrangement of leaves; trunk, branches, and leaves filled with linear patterning. Selvedge printed: "'Ulmus' Design by Viola Grasten Sweden"

1953, Sweden

1953, Sweden

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