Bohus Stickning put knitting needles in the hands of stonecutters' wives in 1939 and, over thirty years, turned relief work into the finest colourwork Sweden has made. Angora-blend yarn, a very fine gauge, up to five colours in a single row, purl stitches set inside the pattern so the hues bleed together.

The system inherits that discipline: a dense band of small stepped motifs across the top, and below it an unbroken calm field. Colour arrives in discrete rows, never in a smooth ramp, and every edge carries a halo.