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  • The founder of the company said her carpets should be as music.

  • She was the composer,

  • and the weavers were the musicians

  • and you when you walk on the carpet you listen to the music.

  • In the Marta Maas studio we're doing useful art textiles.

  • Marta Maas she was an artist and she was so fascinated over the Oriental carpets that

  • she saw 100 years ago.

  • We are still producing her carpets and we have more than almost 1,000 different designs.

  • It's an honor to get to know her through her work, her design, her sketches.

  • When we have a client put an order of a special carpet here, the weavers start lining up the

  • threads for the warp.

  • The warp is the backbone, it's the spine of the carpet.

  • It should bear the carpet all its life.

  • That's almost always flax or linen.

  • And we are winding them up going round and round and it's really important so that all

  • threads are exactly the same length.

  • And we are taking them down from the spinning wheel.

  • And then you invite your colleagues to come to a bomnings party.

  • It's when you set the warp in the loom.

  • We thread them through steel eyes.

  • So it's going to be really tight and it's going to be really even.

  • We are many and we are talking and laughing and we know it's a start for a new project

  • so it's really a good day when we are doing bomning.

  • We have about 8 tons of yarn in 1600 - 1700 different colors.

  • And if we're missing something we need to dye it and then we have white wool coming

  • from Sweden or Norway and it needs to be really strong and good wool and not the sweater wool,

  • not soft and nice.

  • We use the synthetic, reactive colors.

  • We have three pigment colors: red and blue and yellow.

  • And all these three colors you do everything with.

  • If you're really used to working with colors you can see maybe twice or three times as

  • much as normal people.

  • Marta Maas Fjetterstrom lived her last 22 years on the coastline here in Bastad.

  • But she grew up where there were a lot of trees and flowers.

  • Carpet was not common in Sweden, before that we had sand and plants on the floor that we

  • were forming in nice patterns so it's really the nature that has got inspiration to the

  • different carpets.

  • What artists are not inspired by nature?

  • What human being is not inspired by nature?

  • We get all the yarns ready and we wind it up into small balls in the right combinations

  • of colors and threads.

  • We always prepare that before we start doing the flat weave carpet, it's called rollakan

  • in Swedish.

  • Different techniques can give you different solutions but in the rollakan the wool is

  • going between the warp.

  • It's really strong and it's reversible, so it's a really old technique in the very cold countries.

  • You have different kinds of working instructions for different carpets and it's built up by

  • small squares.

  • It's really important for us to pass on the knowledge from generation to generation and

  • we do that by sitting two and two in the looms.

  • It might take a year to do a carpet so you sit beside the same weaver day out and day in

  • and of course you know everything about each other so you could rest together with

  • the other person.

  • It's like walking in silence, you can work in silence beside each other.

  • Eventually when you are finished with your carpet now is the cutting down and you're

  • allowed to see the whole carpet because you have stored it during the process of weaving.

  • It's like waiting for a baby coming, you know that it is there, you feel it, you can see it

  • you have been through everything but you don't know exactly what will come out.

  • And after that the carpet need to rest and we do some flattening.

  • We just nail it to the floor and putting just a little bit of water, and then we put wooden

  • plates on.

  • So it's going to stay there for 4 or 5 days and then it's ready to be rolled

  • and packed and then shipped to the owner.

  • I've been talking to so many clients and they could see their whole life in the carpet.

  • They could see their children growing up, the parties, the divorces, the quarrels the

  • happiness the sadness so it's focusing the whole lifetime to one room, to one spot,

  • to one carpet.

  • It's really a joy and a pleasure to make something that lasts.

The founder of the company said her carpets should be as music.

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