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Title: Peasant art in Sweden, Lapland and Iceland
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Holme, Charles, 1848-1923 Michaelson, Anna Granlund, Sten Alfred Agator, 1871-
Subjects: Folk art -- Sweden Folk art -- Lapland Folk art -- Iceland Costume -- Iceland Folk art, Sami Costume -- Sweden
Publisher: London : 'The Studio'
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r remote villages. But the renaissance type wasthe one most adopted, and it was reproduced until far into thebeginning of the 19th century. A very individual form, with a stronglocal character, is the three-legged Blekinge chair, with a back anda circular seat (Nos. 8 and 10). The chairs in Scania are oftenprovided with seats of straw-rope, plaited or twisted together. Onsolemn occasions, the seats were covered w^ith woven or embroideredcushions. Peculiar hybrid forms of chair and bench are the chair-table(No. 11) and the so-called ^vdndbanken (turn-over bench), the backof which is attached to two side-posts or legs, and can thus be letdown on either long side (No. 41). This is a type which was verycommon in the north of Europe, and was observed by Linneuseverywhere in the peasants houses in Gotland during his tourthrough that island in 1741, and it was still to be found in Sweden 8 ^ CN It wasBrahe, chair 1 in■ich whichThe been!ice type was ,>le •xk .. let us very .inneus tour
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Z < -X SWEDEN and the neighbouring countries for some time in the early part otlast century. The sleeping places in the old Swedish peasants houses wereeither built into the wall and provided with shutters, or else werebenches attached to the walls. In the interior of a cottage inDalecarlia, in the parish of Riittvik, pulled down some time duringthe seventies of last century, the long wall in the background wasoccupied in its entirety by a built-in bed ( closet-bed ), providedwith shutters and arranged in three tiers. The whole arrangementwas of a most remarkably old-fashioned character, reminding one ofthe ■■luckhvila or lokrekkja of legendary times. Movable beds are found at an early period however. A verypeculiar one is that in the Museum, an oak bedstead from Farshundred in Scania (No. 42), which is clearly ot a mediaeval type both asregards construction and decoration, the latter having late Gothicmotives, although the bed was made as late as 1734—this beingspeaking evid

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