Kaisa Melanton

Kaisa Brita Melanton née Björklund (1920–2012) was a pioneering Swedish textile artist who is remembered in particular for the large, post-modernist works she created for local authorities, theatres and churches.

[1] When she was 18, she spent a year training as a art teacher at Konstfack but then transferred to courses in textiles under Barbro Nilsson (1899–1983), graduating in 1943.

[1] Kaisa Melanton began working with Handarbetets Vänner in the early 1950s, collaborating on the Russian weave technique to produce Blå eld (1963) for the theatre and library in Eskilstuna and the enormous Vandring i Solnaskogen tapestry (1965) for the city hall in Solna.

In 1969, Melanton succeeded Edna Martin as the head textile teacher at Konstfack where she remained for ten years.

She continued to be active in later life, producing a number of works for the Stockholm Concert Hall in 2002.