Carpet 'Örtagården'

Designed by Märta Måås-Fjetterström

Sweden, 1952

This rare “Örtagården” flossa rug by Märta Måås-Fjetterström is a richly worked example of mid-century Scandinavian textile art. Designed in 1934 and woven in 1952, it carries the workshop signature AB MMF IBE 1952together with the weavers’ marks for Svea Friberg and Magnhild Hansson, underlining its documented provenance as an original Märta Måås-Fjetterström rug.

The composition evokes a stylised herb garden, with layered fields of pattern built from abstracted floral forms, stepped borders and small symbolic motifs that slowly reveal themselves on closer viewing. A refined palette of mushroom, moss, celadon, soft yellow and muted brick is anchored by darker bands that create a gentle vertical rhythm. Worked in deep, dense flossa pile in hand-dyed wool, the surface has a tactile, almost sculptural quality that shifts with the light.

Balancing symmetry and variation, this Swedish wool rug reads as both ornament and artwork and stands as a significant example of Scandinavian rug design from the Märta Måås-Fjetterström atelier.

Signed AB MMF IBE 1952