Throughout Sweden, people used to have home-woven roller blinds, such as elevator blinds made of striped fabric. The most common color combinations were blue and semi-bleached and red and semi-bleached.
This rustic fabric, woven especially for Gysinge, comes from a farm in Hälsingland and dates from the early 1800s.
The fabrics are shuttle-woven on old-fashioned looms, resulting in smooth, fine and strong selvedges that do not need to be hemmed or cut.
This fabric is a quality product that gets more and more beautiful the more you use it and wash it.
EUR32.55
Round rod for making an 18th century roller blind. See picture number 2.
Untreated birch. Diameter 2.7 cm. Length 140 cm.
EUR11.92
Small, almost circular table after the Gustavian model. The table consists of two halves, which can be paired together, or placed independently. The halves are held together by small hand-forged iron hooks. Because the table is divisible, there are several possible uses: coffee table, window table, flower table, wall table, etc. The table is completely handmade and hand-planed with a profiled edge on the top, round frame and square, tapered legs. The legs are held together by a foot cross. Tables of this type are often painted in light gray or English red.
EUR1 283.34
Roller blind fabric runner. Coarse linen fabric. Kyper technique.
EUR49.98
Roller blind fabric runner. Coarse linen fabric. Cypress technique.
The model for this rustic fabric, which is woven especially for Gysinge, comes from a farm in Hälsingland and dates from the early 1800s.The roller blind fabrics are woven with a shuttle in old-fashioned looms and therefore have smooth, fine and strong selvedges, which do not need to be hemmed or cut.
Also available by the meter and as ready-made towels.
EUR861.98
A versatile scrubbing brush for rough cleaning and scrubbing that can be used both indoors and outdoors. Nicely s-shaped brush that fits well in the hand.
Hand-drawn with union blend bristles and beech handles. Union fiber is a mixture of tampico (from the stalk of the Agave plant) and bassine (from the leaf of the Sago palm).
EUR14.58
EUR19.26
Turn-of-the-century screw hook made of solid nickel-plated brass with iron screw part. Common in the past as a clothes hook in rooms and hallways, as a towel rack in kitchens, etc.
Also available in brass. See related products.
Total length about 50 mm, of which the hook 30 mm
EUR12.84
Total length approx. 60 mm, of which the hook approx. 43 mm.
EUR14.67
Brush for self-assembly on handle when scrubbing wooden floors. The ideal scrubbing brush when you want to avoid knee scrubbing the floors. Tested and developed by the staff in Gysinge!
Also great for brushing sludge paint facades.
EUR10.55
Single hook in nickel-plated or untreated brass. Common during the period 1920 – 1965. Screw included.
EUR4.77 – EUR5.32
Spare part: Square rod for 18th century roller blind.
Untreated pine. Length 140 cm. Thickness 1.2 cm cm. Height 2.2 cm.
Mounted at the top as a stable holder for the blind.
EUR11.46
Newly composed stool/tabourette in the same style and material as the chair of the same name.
Chair Bertil Karlsson History:
A late Gustavian chair that was found broken in the warehouse when Bertil Karlsson’s antique shop in Gamla Gefle changed owners in the 1980s. The chair was probably made around 1800 and is unusually simple with its square front legs – normally they are turned – and with a leather-imitating wooden seat. At the same time, few Bellman chairs – the model is usually called that – are as simply elegant as this one. The original chair was originally painted with mahogany-imitation English red linseed oil paint and with a black seat. Equally common were gray chairs with black seats. Both variants are painted in Nästgårdshuset in Gysinge. The chair is made entirely by hand and all surfaces are hand-planed. The cross in the back has a typical crossing construction (compare the shortcuts on other “copies” on the market) made of two connected parts, and therefore extremely durable. The round rosette in the back cross is carved by sculptors.
EUR219.62
Sweeping set in oiled beech with tin shovel, hand-drawn brush in horsehair. Practical as well as an ornament for the kitchen.
Weight 776 g. Length 90 cm. Width 25 cm. Height 20 cm
EUR65.11
In one of Hälsingland’s most well-preserved farmhouses, we found the original of this plaid half-linen curtain from around the 1920s. The curtain is a typical exponent of the early 20th century industrial interest in Swedish design and Swedish folk tradition. The pattern, the colors and the fine yarn quality are all of the best rural tradition, but not the technique – that it is not handwoven, but woven by machine – is the new thing that the Swedish Crafts Association and other interest organizations worked for at the beginning of the century. With the help of machines, they wanted to simplify and spread the genuine Swedish folk culture to wider circles.
The original curtain hangs as a half-curtain (‘café curtain’) in a stencilled hall. It is equally likely to have existed simultaneously as long curtains in other homes, both in the country and in the city, as ‘allmoge’ was generally a popular style in all social settings in the early 20th century.
The factsHalf-linen. Width 85 cm. Cotton in warp, linen in weft. Checked in blue, rust red, black and white. Machine woven in Sweden for Gysinge. Shrinks about 5-7% in the first wash.
Washing instructionsHand wash at about 40-50 degrees.
Sold only in whole meters.
EUR25.68
The Gysinge tile is a beveled tile for bathrooms and kitchens of a model that was common in Sweden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Several Swedish tile manufacturers existed at the time, including Ekeby Bruk in Uppsala.
What distinguishes Swedish tiles from international models is that Swedish tiles are usually square, not rectangular, and that they are available in so many parts, including half-tiles, borders and moldings, that a complete set can be made. The tiles are thick and strong and have a vibrant surface precisely because they are handmade and fired in old kilns. The glazing is also done by hand, which further enhances the rustic impression. All tiles are labeled “Gysinge” on the back.
EUR164.60
Gysinge’s wooden stove cabinet is a replica of a real stove from Fredriksberg Manor outside Oskarshamn.
It is entirely hand-carved in pine with stove feet of hand-turned birch. The exceptional details include the crown molding, which is hand-planed from a single piece, and of course the frame is joined only by hand-zincing. Everything is thus 18th century in this tiled stove cabinet, which is finally hand-painted with matte linseed oil paint in the same pattern as the tiled stove at Fredriksberg.
EUR8 711.50
Old-fashioned, soft cream caramel flavored with vanilla from Polkapojkarna, Gränna.
Ingredients: Sugar, glucose, skimmed milk powder, fully hydrogenated coconut fat, maltodextrin, butter, salt, cream, vanilla.
EUR4.13
The traditional kitchen and toilet towel in “poor man’s suit” in classic white or blue.
The towels from Gysinge have an interesting history. Until the 1980s, Gysinge was a nursing home run by the county council. To create employment for the 60 or so mentally ill people who stayed at the home, there was, among other things, a weaving room. Many of the inmates spent a long time in the weaving room, which gave them a more meaningful existence – and the county council a cash injection. At the home, real fabrics were woven, not therapy work in the modern, negative sense. For example, all the curtains, tablecloths and napkins were woven for the reopening of Gysinge Manor in the 1960s. This towel fabric is a so-called sieve weave (the pattern looks like a sieve – but only appears after washing!), woven to order for a guesthouse in Järvsö in the 60s. The weaving method is also called poor man’s cloth, a weaving method that produced a fabric that looks much more exclusive than it really is. The weaving method is very old and produces a highly absorbent and durable fabric, which has always been used for towels and tablecloths. The fabric is most beautiful if you mangle it, then the shiny linen threads in the weft are emphasized, against the duller warp of cotton. The quality only becomes more beautiful the more you wear the fabric.
One of the contradictions of the fabric is that as towels it gives a slightly old-fashioned robust character, while as a well-mangled tablecloth it gives an exclusive feeling of “Oh my, what’s this?”.
EUR22.83
The traditional kitchen and toilet towel in “poor man’s suit” in classic white, blue, unbleached or red.
50% cotton, 50% linen of bleached quality with elements of bleached and bright red yarn respectively.
Shrinks about 7% on first wash. Machine wash recommended, preferably 90 degrees after heavy soiling, otherwise 40 or 60 degrees. Can be ironed or mangled. As towels, it is sufficient to hang them smooth after washing and then fold them. Stains are removed with linseed oil soap. Sold in four variants of towels and as napkins in white.
Towel made of roller blind fabric.
Also available by the meter and ready-made runners.
EUR27.97
