Vintage dansk rya vægbeklædning med landskabsmotiv

This is a vintage rug with a beautiful landscape design. It is made of a soft, plush material and is in excellent condition. It would be a great addition to any home. 107 cm x 70 cm.

Wall Rya , Not floor rya. Never used in a floor. No Cat No Dog home. Some people are very alergic to vintage odours. Please dont bid if you have a problem with that fact. A Dry Cleaning of some ryas may be posible. No odor significative on this vintage.

The HISTORY of RYA (Resume by Diana)

The Rya rug developed since ancient times in the area

that now comprehend Sweden and Finland. Originally the rya was woven for

protection against the cold. It was a textile of the common man: the first

ryas were bed covers used with the long haired wool on the inside. It was

used over the scandinavian sleight. It was used as a coat for fishermen &

whalehunters. It had the advantage to repell seawater much better than

leather. It was used on the horses or to cover the doorway and not

infrecuently as a sustitute for money. The heavy one-colored gray Rya

coats were made with the elastic wool of the "spellsauens" sheep race from

Norway. The warming capacity of the woven Rya was better than that of the

leather & fur. RY, an old Norse word meaning "coverlet made of pile" and

RUH, "rough or shaggy" are found in scandinavian writtings of the

sixteenth century. The modern word RYA is swedish and probably evolved

during the eighteenth century. Other names for the technique include ryia,

ria, ryo,ryghia (all archaic) and ryijy ,the name by which the Finns still

identify their craft. In the middle ages was the Rya a common used Bed

Cover in Denmark. Gradually as more efficient ways were developed to keep

warm, rya's role changed from practical to decorative. Decoration with

motives included plants, animals, religious simbols, pictorial narratives,

and elaborate geometric elaborations like the sunburst pattern. Soon in

the 1500 begin the decoration of the Ryas to be used only in ceremonial

ocassions and they were called Pryd ryas. This rya was used in wedding

ceremonies at the church and as rug for the newly gifted. A combination of

wall decoration with an extention to the floor was common in 1900's. A

swedish Rya artist Märta Måås-Fjetterstrom was a pioneer in the years of

industrialism. In the 1960's many artists experimented with forms and

colors and Ryas were very popular. Many tapestries were famous in Denmark

working with design ryas: HØYER, L.F.FOGHT, EGE, C.U.M. & GRAM. In the

1980's the generation that grew up with the very popular modern ryas of

the 1960's grew older, satisfied &

saturated with the rya weaving option. Many artists shifted to other

design experiments and the Ryas of the 1960's-70's are now hard to find.

Ocassionally owners & collectors break up their collections or die and the

ryas appear like a Greenpeace submarine smashing the ice to surface and

breath. We have a purple Shag by Verner Panton of Denmark. This

experiment in the use of a pile textile was initiated by the Bayer

chemical company of Germany to stimulate market outlets for its synthetic

Dralon fibers. The organic furniture here, as well as the floor, walls,

ceiling of this room in a ship were covered with a machine-tufted dralon

pile. Quite Cool.