TEXTIL RESERVAGETEKNIK I EN SVENSK HEMSLÖJDSKONTEXT

Abstract

To beautify and create patterned surfaces in textiles is a deeply human urge since ancient times. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to enlight resist dyeing, such as batik and shibori, in the sphere of the National Association of Swedish Handicraft Societies. In Sweden an exotic and nontraditional technique. The aim actualises the National Swedish Handicraft Council´s (NFH) ongoing work with inter cultural sloyd and handicraft, and their further ambition to include in a multi cultural society. Initially I present two museum objects, that represents resist dyeing in a Swedish past. They will function as context to the main aim of the essay. Interviews with representative sources, active both inside and outside the organized sphere of Swedish Handicraft Societies, underpins the discussion. The interviews are reproduced in the essay as abstracts, and further on analysed by phenomenographical methods. The interviewees mirror the main questions: What place does textile resist dyeing have in the organized Swedish Handicraft Societies? Which Swedish hybridizations of textile resist dyeing are there? Which place has textile resist dyeing as an inter cultural practice? What characterizes good sloyd and handicraft? The theory is based on Lilli Zickerman´s, founder of Society of Swedish Handicrafts (1899), criteria of good sloyd and handicraft. I also rely on NFH´s on going work with inter cultural sloyd and handicraft, swedish ethnologist Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius Ph.D. Thesis "Traditionens estetik" (2007) swedish ethnologist Anneli Palmsköld´s publication "Begreppet hemslöjd" (2012) and swedish ethnologist Barbro Klein´s essay "Den svenska hemslöjdsrörelsen och de främmande" (Den vackra nyttan 1999). This bachelor thesis enlightens the fact that textile resist dyeing has been performed in Sweden in the past. Today represented in similar plangi objects at Mora Hemslöjd´s store in Dalecarlia. The thesis also confirms that resist dyeing could be accepted in the sphere as an inter cultural form of sloyd and handicraft. But only according to Lilli Zickerman´s criteria of good sloyd and handicraft. Above all, this thesis has generated further questions related to inter cultural sloyd and handicraft, on what criterias selection are made, and the diversity of inter cultural sloyd and handicraft.