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Irma Kronlund (b. Sweden 1919-2008)
Irma Kronlund grew up in western Kronoberg and had completed her designer education at the Technical School and the Higher Art Industrial School in Stockholm.
From the mid-1950s, Kronlund designed for the Kronoberg läns hemslöjd, (County Crafts Association) headquartered in the city of Växjö, in Kronoberg county, in south-central Sweden.
She remained as a textile artist at Hemslöjden in Kronoberg all her professional life until retirement in December 1984.
Barbro Nilsson (1899-1983)
In 1889, the Swedish textile designer Barbro Nilsson was born in Malmö, in the Southwest of Sweden. She was educated at Johanna Brunssons vävskola and Tekniska skolan in Stockholm (now Kunstfackskolan). She became a capable, inspiring and demanding teacher in her textile subjects.
Märta Måås-Fjetterström (1873-1941)
Marion Dorn (1896-1964)
In 1939, interior designer, HG Hayes Marshall described Marion Dorn as ‘one of the most prominent and successful designers of our time’. Dorothy Todd, an influential journalist who had first brought Dorn to public attention in 1925, christened her the ‘architect of floors’.