Agnes Branting

Agnes Margareta Matilda Branting (27 February 1862 – 13 April 1930, Stockholm)[1] was a Swedish textile artist and writer.

Thanks to her relationships with several leading artists, she conducted experiments on the development of pictorial tapestries, making them an increasingly important feature of Swedish art.

[2] After resigning from her position at Friends of Handicraft in 1904, she immediately set up Licium, a workshop specializing in religious and heraldic textiles.

Drawing on the collaboration of artists including Anders Zorn and Gunnar Wennerberg, the firm produced pictorial tapestries in addition to decorative carpets and upholstery.

[2] In 1908, Branting established Pietas, an enterprise devoted to the conservation of old Swedish textiles, including those of the cathedrals of Uppsala and Linköping.