Julia at Stampen and the seagulls

"Julia på Stampen" was a woman who returned from America in 1915 and settled at "Stampen" in Klässbol. The house was called that in the vernacular, from which Julia got the nickname "Julia på Stampen". The house was to be renovated and during the demolition work Julia found various textiles that had been used as sealing material between the logs. Among these was a pattern that particularly appealed to Julia, whereupon she showed it to Hjalmar Johansson, the first generation of weavers in the Johansson family. Perhaps he would like to take on the pattern and create a motif of these free-flying seagulls?

Dick Johansson, grandson of Hjalmar, says: "As history can later confirm, grandfather totally fell for the pattern. It came into production in the living room of the residence in 1921 on the large installed jacquard loom. It was so big that a hole had been made in the ceiling up to the second floor where the jacquard was placed on the bedroom. All eight children slept there. And they slept well as long as the loom wove and rocked them to sleep, said my father Vitalis, who was one of the children.”

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