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domestic industries.
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tion and spinning of flax had their chief seat in Hälsingland and
Ångermanland, so too did the weaving of linen reach its highest degree of perfection in
these provinces. Hälsingland was well known for its coarse drill; the worth of
the manufacture amounted in 1857 to Vs million kronor. In that province,
the wife who did not every year provide her husband with at least 1 000
ells of linen cloth for sale was considered to be very incapable. The fine
linen cloth of Ångermanland was celebrated beyond the borders of the country.
As early as 1751, the four Estates of the Kingdom began to give premiums
for such linen but, in spite of this encouragement, the production, which, in
the middle of the 19th century was valued at 700 000 kronor, steadily
decreased and is now of little importance in that province. The greater part of
the Ångermanland linen went to Russia, and its sale, like that of the Hälsinge
textiles, was carried out by the peasants themselves or by a special class of
pedlars. Västergötland, too, especially the hundreds of Mark, Kind, Bollebygd,
Ås, and Redväg, have long been the seats of the linen-weaving home-sloyd
which is still carried on, on a considerable scale in the hundred of Mark, but
the yarn which is employed nowadays is a factory-product and the industry
has fallen into the hands of middlemen. Cotton-textiles soon took the lead,
however, in these Västgöta country districts, and even to-day it is widely spread
in the hundreds of Mark, Kind and Bollebygd, but it is almost exclusively an
industry that exists by executing the middleman’s orders. Woollen textiles, too,
have been manufactured from very ancient times in these tracts, and the process
of development from a domestic industry proper to a sweated industry has
been the same as for the other forms of textile sloyd carried on there. A large
amount of plain woollen and linen cloth, too, is manufactured and sold in the
Län of Västerbotten, while the artistic textile production intended for sale has
its chief seat in the Län of Kristianstad.
The value of home-woven cloth sold in 1911 is calculated at 21/2 million
kronor.
Knitting by hand, as a home industry carried on for profit, has been most
widely spread in the south part of the Län of Halland, where it is sti1l carried
on, on a small scale, to order. Knitting by machine, also to order, is carried
on, on a large scale, in the districts round Borås.
Bobbin lace-work for purposes of sale has been carried on since the Middle
Ages in the country round the towns of Vadstena, Motala, and Skänninge.
Joinery was formerly carried on extensively in several places where now
it has either been transformed into factory-production, or where it is still
pursued as a domestic industry carried on for profit; it exists chiefly at
öster-våla in Västmanland Län, Kyrkefalla in Skaraborgs Län, Lindome in Halland
Län and in the hundreds of östra and Västra Göinge in Kristianstad Län.
The furniture is, as a rule, sold to middlemen, who sell it either in their own
shops or at fairs.
Casks are chiefly manufactured in the Läns of Kopparberg, Västmanland,
Örebro, Halland and Kristianstad.
The carpentry-sloyd carried on for the purpose of sale is mostly carried on
in Småland, Västergötland, Halland, and Västerbotten.
The gross value of carpentry-sloyd articles sold in 1911 is estimated at 31/2—4
million kronor.
Basket-making is of several kinds. Coarse, so-called coal-baskets, for the use
of the railways, are manufactured mostly in Älvsborg Län, south of Alingsås, and
in the Läns of Kopparberg, Blekinge, and Kristianstad while baskets made of
chip are made in the Läns of Kopparberg, Kronoberg, and Kristianstad. Fine
wicker-work baskets are made purely as a domestic industry carried on for profit;
it exists on a large scale in the north-east of Blekinge, and it is here, too,
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