Curtain rod from the mid-19th century, typical thin rod with elegant hand-turned end knobs in birch. Attached to the wall using hand-forged screw hooks.
The original pole, which comes from the farm Nästgårds in Sterte, Österfärnebo (now one of our exhibition houses) was painted with 7 percent carbon black gray and with buds in 100 percent carbon black.
EUR47.83
Make your own 18th century style roller blind, the kind that is rolled using ropes. A complete roller blind kit includes a round rod, a square rod, two rings of glass, two leather straps and about 8 meters of cotton cord.
We recommend hand-forged nails, 1.5 – 2″, to attach the leather straps and a sturdy fabric, such as our product Roller Blind Fabric.
EUR58.76
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.
EUR32.34
Round rod for making an 18th century roller blind. See picture number 2.
Untreated birch. Diameter 2.7 cm. Length 140 cm.
EUR11.84
Roller blind fabric runner. Coarse linen fabric. Kyper technique.
EUR49.65
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.
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.
EUR11.39
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.
EUR25.51
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?”.
EUR22.68
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.
EUR27.79
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 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.
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.
EUR318.39 – EUR404.94
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”.
EUR318.39
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.
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.
EUR66.05
