NORSE COLLECTION
by Anna-Carin Design for Designer Rugs
Anna-Carin has travelled back into her ancestry for her second rug collection - a collaboration with Designer Rugs. Her inspiration coming from the first system of writing developed by the Norse peoples: the Runes.
The Runes functioned as letters, but they were much more than just letters in the sense in which we today understand the term. Each rune was an ideographic or pictographic symbol of some cosmological principle or power, and to write a rune was to invoke and direct the force for which it stood.
Each rug holds a special meaning and belief behind it. Through this collection she invokes the force of the earth goddess, wealth, respite and family unity into the homes where these rugs lay.
The Fehu
The rune of wealth.
“Every beginning has within it the seeds of its own end.”
Othala
The rune of ancestral land: hearth, home and family unity.
“We inherit ourselves.”
The Berkano
The rune of the great mother,
the earth goddess.
“The most obvious Truth is hidden deep within, and only you will ever know it.”
The Isa
The rune of ice or respite.
“Ice only appears to stop a river’s flow.”
