Märta Måås-Fjetterström

She is remembered in particular for the weaving studio she opened in Båstad in 1919 and for the decorative rugs she produced from the 1910s to the 1930s, increasingly combining rural Nordic traditions with modernist trends.

[1] On completing her training, she spent a few years teaching at the Technical School in Jönköping but also created decorative woven works which she exhibited in 1900.

In 1902, she was invited to work as a weaving instructor at the Kulturhistoriska föreningen in Lund where she showed interest in Scanian textile traditions but experienced difficulty in her dealings with its head, Georg Karlin.

[1] In 1905, she was invited to head the newly created handicrafts establishment in Malmö known as Malmöhus läns Hemslöjdsförening which encouraged women to develop their interest in arts and crafts.

[4] She left the Malmö establishment six years later after problems with the board but was re-employed in 1913 by the Hemslöjd weaving school in Vittsjö where she worked with Lilli Zickerman, developing modern designs and pile rugs.