Webinar: “Northern Delights: Swedish Textiles from 1680 to 1850” with Gunnar Nilsson, Collector and Independent Scholar, Göteborg, Sweden Virtual via Zoom. Saturday, February 11, 2023 10 am Pt / 1 pm Et / 6 pm Gmt-London. Free registration: https://tinyurl.com/TMASwedishrgrbt Hosted by the New England Rug Society, Co-sponsored by Textile Museum Associates of Southern California, and The Museum at George Washington Museum and The Textile Museum. Certain textile techniques unique to rural communities in Sweden have a long history, and the best pieces stand comparison with the most celebrated traditional textile art elsewhere in Europe, including the best Flemish-weave and röllakan examples. Yet they remain little known outside their locality. In times past, the peasantry in Skåne, southern Sweden, devised and utilised five different textile techniques about which little has been written in English. In this program, Collector Gunnar Nilsson lets us into the secrets of munkabälte, dukagång, krabbasnår, upphämta and trensaflossa. These techniques, all of which are represented in prominent Swedish museums with textile displays, are well known to aficionados within Sweden—people interested in textile history, collectors, and anyone enjoying handicraft techniques, of whom there are thousands across the whole of Sweden. Registration: https://tinyurl.com/TMASwedishrgrbt See Textile Museum Associates' February Newsletter, with virtual programs of other organizations and institutions, plus exhibitions, conferences, and online articles, videos and recordings: https://tinyurl.com/TMASwedishNewsltr1