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Gate known as Vakre Hjem (Beautiful Home). Her employees produced furniture fabrics on semi-automatic looms from Sweden while she designed patterns for curtains, carpets and tablecloths in a variety of natural and synthetic fibres including wool, cotton, linnen and even reeds. Some of these were produced in her studio but from the 1950s most were produced by a variety of textile factories, including
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