The traditional kitchen and toilet towel in “poor man’s suit” in classic white, blue, unbleached and red.
50% cotton, 50% linen of bleached quality with elements of bleached and unbleached yarn.
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 as towels in four different colors and as white napkins.
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.
EUR22.83
The traditional kitchen and toilet towel in “poor man’s suit” in classic white or blue. The sturdy napkin for everyday and party.
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?”.
Home-woven, sturdy rag rug, old-fashioned narrow and with elements of real cotton rags. The rags are cut from washed fabrics, which is why the rug does not shrink significantly when washed.
The Glesrip carpet is woven with a stripe effect mainly in black and dark pink and with elements of gray, beige and blue-gray. The colors vary naturally from weave to weave. The rug has donut belt stars along the edges.
Handwoven. Warp and weft of 100% cotton. Finished hemmed. Length 2.50 m and 3.50 m. Width 67 cm.
Washing instructions: Shrinkage when washed up to 10 percent. Machine wash 60 degrees color wash.
EUR320.49 – EUR407.61
Home-woven, solid rag rug based on a model from the first part of the 20th century. Woven with colored warp in stripes, which is why the pattern effect in the finished carpet is checkered. An unusually decorative rug that fits in both finer rooms and simpler ones.
“Sister Inge” (1925-1998) was surnamed Lund and was a Danish-born district nurse who worked mainly in Skåne. Inge Lund was of the old stock, washed and washed dishes in soap and decorated her beautiful homes with a mixture of inherited, recycled and newly composed with a skill that would make any modern interior designer green with envy. We borrowed this rug from her holiday apartment in Järvsö, Sweden, and with it we found another example of her unerring sense of recycling (old cotton clothes), pattern (19th century) and color (rich empire) in something as simple as an “ordinary rag rug”.
EUR320.49
Hand-woven, sturdy rag rug, old-fashioned narrow and with elements of real cotton rags. The rags are cut from washed fabrics, which is why the rug does not shrink significantly when washed. Inkjet technique with stripe effect in black and white with elements of blue-gray, beige and rust brown. The colors can vary naturally from weave to weave.
Handwoven. Warp and weft of 100% cotton. Finished hemmed. Length 2.50 m and 3.50 m. Width 60 cm.
Washing instructions: Machine wash 60 degrees color wash. Shrinkage when washing up to 10 percent. Detergent: mild liquid linseed oil soap.
Copy of an old garden bench from Mattön, Gysinge.
Seat made of three boards, joined together with strips. Base in the form of cross-shaped trestles with beam and wedges. The seat is attached to the trestle with locking pins and the entire bench can be easily dismantled.
Pine, unpainted. Width 42 cm, height 51 cm, length 138 cm.
Suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.
EUR591.47
Gysinge’s trestle table is based on a model from the early 1900s when interest in Swedish folk culture was at its peak, at the same time as new outdoor habits began, such as eating and drinking coffee in the garden in summer. The old trestle tables were then too heavy to carry in and out and the new garden furniture was too small and wobbly for larger parties. Therefore, furniture such as Gysinge’s trestle table came into being, often home-made on the farms and often hidden away and dismantled in winter or used as storage tables in outbuildings, attics and so on.
The Gysinge trestle table is easy to assemble, easy to carry (one person can do it) and can be used both indoors and outdoors. It takes up almost no space at all when dismantled. The fact that it is untreated means that the board can be easily soap scrubbed and maintenance is almost non-existent. “Practical” is a worn-out word, but this trestle table is as close to practical as you can get.
Trestles, boom and board: Untreated pine. Wedges: Birch.
EUR824.84
Drop-leaf table made of hand-planed, late-grown pine. wide boards. The folding boards are attached with traditional hinges and forged rivets. otherwise, the table is assembled with pins, wooden dowels and locking pins.
Large and solid handmade percussion table. Made after a model around 1800 from Alfta parish in Hälsningland. Unusually intelligent construction with crossing gates that provide comfortable seating around the entire table. The construction together with the solid weight makes the top rest more stable on the base than normal.
Seats 10 people. Dimensions when set up give a length of 174 cm, width 118 cm and height 76 cm. Dimensions when folded, length 41 cm, width 118 cm and height 76 cm.
The original table was originally painted in common blue, but already in the middle of the 19th century it was given a new light gray color, linseed oil paint green umbra 7-15%.
EUR3 200.33
A classic pattern. This particular type of pastoral pattern, in this case a ‘picnic by the canal’, was fashionable in the latter part of the 19th century, especially in France and England, but also in the United States during the colonial period.
Available in the colors blue, black, red. Purchased in whole meters.
Not covered by the right of exchange or repurchase as the cutting of fabric is considered equivalent to a special order.
EUR66.48
Adhesive strips for sealing interior windows. To be pasted over the gap between sash and frame. Thin, white paper with adhesive backing. Width 25 mm, length 25 m.
Cut or tear to suitable lengths.
EUR4.59
