“From farmer’s wife to weaver” – The book about Cilluf Olsson, 1847-1916

Cilluf Olsson was a strong and enterprising woman, who at the beginning of the 20th century, ran her own business, sold her own products, ran a weaving school, a shop and went to exhibitions including the world exhibition in Paris in 1900. She joined in the national movement to preserve the textile heritage that was being lost with the emergence of industrialism, by serving on the board of the Malmöhus County Arts & Crafts Association formed in 1905.