After a design by Märta Måås-Fjetterström (1873-1941), Båstad, Sweden

Märta Måås-Fjetterström's contribution to textile design within the Scandinavian Modern movement of the inter-war period, was both innovative and prolific.  She began her career at the Malmo Society, before setting up her own workshop, first in Vjittis, and then in 1919 in Båstad;  weavers were employed to execute her designs, for which she drew inspiration from traditional folk art and from the Swedish landscape, combined with more abstract and painterly explorations in colour and form.  Her background as a watercolourist is relected in many of her pieces, which employ a palette of gentle natural colours, as seen in the present lot, with its stylised rendition of flowers, grasses and thistles mainly in soft greens, blues and lavender. Another example of this design was sold: Sotheby's London, 27 April 2005, lot 110A.