She is the best known of the Hårkulla ("Hair-kulla"), the famous category of travelling businesswomen from Dalarna who manufactured and sold hair jewellery all over Europe in the 19th century.
As other hårkullor, she made business trips in Europe to sell her products, and she was to become perhaps the most successful of these.
She was a supplier of hair jewellery to Queen Victoria, whom she met during a business trip to Scotland.
[citation needed] She was married to Martis Mats Andersson and was the mother of Anna Matsdotter (1862-1943) and the maternal grandmother of Eric Wickman.
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