Traditional Folk Art Wall Blockprinted Wall Hanging from C19th Painting: C1950s Job’s Workshop, Leksand, Sweden

Item Details.
Block printed and stencilled floral wall hanging, panel based on the Swedish valley paintings Kurtis or Dalia Kurdistan. Produced in Sweden in the 1950s by Job’s Handcraft, Lima, Leksand by Hjelt Per Persson

This hanging is of a traditional decorative Tree of Life, incorporating gourds in the design which held religious significance in the 19th century valley wall paintings that inspired these hangings. The wall paintings which inspired these copies on linen all have biblical motifs.

Peer, Lisbet and Gocken Jobs began printing textiles in the early 1940s. The sisters Lisbet and Gocken started out as potters who often depicted local flowers and fauna that grew nearby their home in Leksand. When the Second World War made it impossible for the sisters to import glazes for their pottery, their brother Peer started transferring their patterns onto fabric using handcarved printing blocks.
Over time, Jobs began printing not only Lisbet and Gocken's many designs, but also ones created by Eva Jobs, Peer's wife, and other well-known artists including Dagman Lodén. Screenprinting eventually replaced blockprinting as the means of production. The Jobs printers also blend their own dyes by hand, using water, algae, salt, and color pigment.

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Measurements:
100 x 69.5cm

Condition.
In excellent never used condition.
All of the items we sell are antique or vintage and as such may have all the idiosyncrasies of old and loved textiles, so small marks and signs of wear are to be expected and are an inherent part of their charm.