Three handwoven rag rugs with railway track pattern.

You should not walk on real railway tracks, unless they are not in use, or if you have a special authority. It is a matter of safety. But you may walk on rugs with railway track pattern!

I started with handweaving in 2019, and from the beginning I had the idea of making rag rugs with railway track pattern, quite natural for me as being a railway engineer.

I started the work with warping during Easter 2020, but did not finish the rugs until the summer of 2022. I sent an application to the 2023 art competition Vårsalongen at Liljevalchs in Stockholm in the fall of 2022, but was not admitted. Below are the pictures I sent them, of three different rugs. One is meant to be used as a rug on the floor, the other two are intended as wall decorations. The rugs are woven with taquete technique, on an Öxabäcks Lilla loom.