Maja Andersson Wirde

In 1929, she moved to the United States to work for the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, producing high-quality fabrics and carpets for the newly built Kingswood Girls' School.

Andersson Wirde designed textiles for churches, including an altar hanging for Lund Cathedral which was presented at Stockholm's 1909 Industrial Arts Exhibition.

Other important works included the largest carpet ever (11 by 4 metres) for Stockholm's new city hall (1915) and textiles for the transatlantic liner MS Kungsholm (1928).

[1] In 1929, Andersson Wirde moved to Detroit where she designed textiles for the Cranbrook Academy of Art and ran the weaving workshop at the facility established by Loja Saarinen from Finland who only employed weavers from Sweden.

Considered to be of exceptionally high quality, the works she produced included carpets, curtains and textile furnishings for the recently completed Kingswood School.