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1952
Designed by Stig Lindberg
Fabric manufactured by Nordiska Kompaniet's Textilkammare
Length x width: 271.8 x 127 cm (107 x 50 in.)
Screen-printed cotton/linen plain weave
Classification: Textiles
Culture: Swedish
Accession number: 2011.486
Description: Length of furnishing fabric with bold, large-scale pattern of black palm fronds on yellow ground. Selvedge reads: " 'Papua' Stig Lindberg design NK's Textilekammare Made in Sweden"
Provenance/Ownership History: About 2000, purchased by Junnaa Wroblewski at an antique shop, Sweden; 2011, sold by Junnaa and Thomi Wroblewski LTD to the MFA. (Accession date: September 21, 2011)
Museum purchase with funds donated by the Textile and Costume Society, Museum of Fine Arts Boston