A flat weave carrige cushion, Scania, ca 110 x 48 cm, around the year 1800
Probably the district of Vemmenhög. Four octagons with women with raised hands surrounded by St. Andrew's crosses and brook horses.
Literature
Willborg, Peter: Flatweaves from Fjord and Forest; Scandinavian Tapestries of the 18th and 19th Centuries, London 1984, color plate 28, p. 71
More information
Groups of women are often associated in scandinavian folklore with otherworldly visitors who bring good fortune, gifts and blessings to newborn children. These could be the folkloristic descendants of attendants of Freyja, or even decendents of the nors, the three fates of norse mythology, the equvenlent of fairy godmothes in european fairy-tales.
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