Carpet 'Nyponblomman '

Designed by Märta Måås-Fjetterström

Sweden, 1941

Nyponblomman is one of Märta Måås-Fjetterström’s most poetic interpretations of the Scandinavian landscape. The pattern is rooted in her memories of the wild rose-hip bushes that grew along the coastal paths near her home, their modest blossoms and fruit translated here into a sequence of stylised forms. Rather than depicting the plant literally, she reduced its shapes to a refined geometric vocabulary, allowing the rhythm of stems and berries to unfold across the rug in a measured, architectural order.

Woven in the AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström workshop in Båstad, the carpet reflects the studio’s meticulous handwork and carefully balanced colour palette. Soft, nuanced tones give the surface a gentle depth, while the repeat of the Nyponblomman motif creates a calm, structured field that sits easily in both historic and contemporary interiors.

As a Swedish flat-woven rug from one of the most important textile workshops of the twentieth century, this example of Nyponblomman unites nature, modernist design thinking and exceptional Scandinavian craftsmanship in a single composition.

(AB Märta Måås-Fjetterström.) Composed 1932, manufactured after 1941.