Program for textile days at Hälsinglands museum in Hudiksvall
with Mili Tharakan, Guest Research-worker from India and Tina Ahlström, Research Secretary, both working at the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås.
Tuesday January 31
8.30 Gunilla Stenberg, head of Hälsinglands Museum and the undersigned fetched the Ladies from Borås at their hotel. And we went by car to Ingrid Östergård. She lives in a beautiful old house in a small village calledTönnånger. Ingrid makes bobbin laces, weaves and embroides. After that we visited the church of Skog and a copy of the famous and old tapestry: “Skogsbonaden”.
We continued to Kilafors (where we had lunch) and after that at 1 pm we visited a factory called “Filtmakeriet”. Here they produce wollen blankets. Veronica Skytt, textile designer and woll producer/director, guided us.
On the way back to Hudiksvall we passed old so called “Hälsingegårdar”, buildings typical for the landscape.
4.00 pm Our textile curator Petra Holmstedt showed us parts of the old textile collection at the museum.
5.30 pm Dinner in town.
In the evening 7 pm at the museum, after dinner at a restaurant near the museum, we met the following women:
Karin Lundholm from the village of Iggesund, she works in birch-bark,
Kerstin Höglund from Enånger who makes bobbin laces and
Märta Trolin from Forsa who works in skin/hide and textile and
Elisabeth Lindberg from Vallsta who also embroides.
The press arrived at 8 pm (-8.30 pm)
Wednesday February 1st9 am Coffee at the museum
9.30 am We went by car to Acreo Fiber Optic Center in Hudiksvall where we looked at the metal-mixed wool in an electronic microscope. And Mili got information about what kind of metal it is.
10.30 pm After that our curator Lars Nylander showed us medieval wooden sculpturs by Haaken Gullesson from the villages called Fläcka in Enånger near by Hudiksvall and old wall-paintings in the warehouse of the museum.
12 am Lunch somewhere in Hudiksvall together with Åsa Claesson, Manager at Acreo Fiber Optic Center.
1 pm We met the well-known artist Inger Drougge-Carlberg in her studio in Hudiksvall. She makes paper out of forexample cloth and adds yarn of wool and linen. That amongst other textile works
After that we went by car to Iggesund Paperboard and Inger´s studio at the factory.
In the evening Petra Holmstedt, textile curator at the museum, visited Mili and Tina and tought them how to make ribbons/bands by an old technique called “Brickband”