Haglund, Carina

Haglund, Carina

Carina Haglund felts artefacts that she sells and shows at exhibitions. She arranges workshops and courses for children and adults. She's also doing lectures about her craft. Haglund is member and participating in the event "Fårfesten" in the town of Kil, a large annual event focusing on all things related to sheep - wool, husbandry, leather and meat. Prior to the even she's been teaching all children in the town of Kil in class four (ages 10) in felting. haglund lives ruraly with her husband and she has a studio on the farm where she makes her wool craft. She's also working part time at a pre-school 30%.

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Haglund, Carina

https://www.ullting.se/

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Carina Haglund felts artefacts that she sells and shows at exhibitions. She arranges workshops and courses for children and adults. She's also doing lectures about her craft. Haglund is member and participating in the event "Fårfesten" in the town of Kil, a large annual event focusing on all things related to sheep - wool, husbandry, leather and meat. Prior to the even she's been teaching all children in the town of Kil in class four (ages 10) in felting. haglund lives ruraly with her husband and she has a studio on the farm where she makes her wool craft. She's also working part time at a pre-school 30%.

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fibre and textile crafts

Haglund attended several educations and courses. She can't remember all of them, but mentions: Marianne Andersson (Kil, Sweden), Fiona Duthie Canada (Canada), Yvonne Habbe (Gotland, Sweden). Schools: Kyrkeruds Folkhögskola (Årjäng, Sweden), Handarbetets vänner (Stockholm, Sweden).

Haglund has courses and workshops in felting on her farm currently. She's also prior been teaching felting for all children in year 4 (ages 10) in the town of Kil.

Ulrika Jäger, Kajsa Stinnerbom

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Haglund's got knowledge of how to prepare wool all the way leading up to felting. She is knowledgable of the different qualities of wool and how to practice crafts related to felting.

She moved from Karlstad with her husband to try living in the countryside

Carded wool in natural colour and coloured. Primarily wool from Gotlandsheep, Finnsheep and Leichester sheep

part-time paid job

Åddebo ull: addeboull.com; Filtmakeriet: filtmakeriet.se; Bibbis textil: bibbistextil.se; Korps: korps.se; IKEA: ikea.com. Second hand and inherited craft supplies

Carina saves and sorts her leftover needle felt which she then uses in other craft projects.

Wet felting by hand. Wet felting by machine (see video) when making carpets. Sewing by hand and machine.

Bubbelplast, yes diskmedel, olivvål, vatten, rundstav. stänkflaska, tovträ, nål, sax, rullkniv, symaskin, maskin för tovning.

Carina's relationship to her tools is practical in nature.

Electricity supplier, air source heat pump, solar cells

Water which is just pour out on the farm. The leftover wool is used for new projects.

Carina has her studio in the same location as the farm where she lives. They have a farm building on the site which was remade into a studio.

Pillows, bags, decorations (e.g. holiday decorations), cushions, carpets, pots, lamp shades, mittens, and more.

For everyday use in the home. The products are both made to be warming and for decorations.

She sells her products at her home, but also as a guest at the cooperatives Konsthantverkarna i Karlstad: konsthantverkarnakarlstad.se; Konsthantverkarna i Arvika: arvikakonsthantverk.se (both online and on site stores), and at events.

Courses, lecturers and workshops in felting.

She's never been asked

Haglund says it's everyone

Her own label with the laser engraved leather tag: "Ullting" (loosely translated to "wool stuff"). A paper tag is also fastened to the products with her name and contact info.

Not as of now

Vi hyr ju ut till turister men det är ju inte på det sättet men vi kanske i och med vårat skogs....mitt...vårat andra företag...företaget att...att...det blir mer naturturism.....och kombo kanske med nån tovning kanske, vem vet.

Guest member of Karlstad konsthantverkare, member of Arvika konsthantverkare, previous member of Åmåls konsthantverkare (all cooperatives), member of Fåreningen (local wool association). She's been teaching felting at the municipalities schools. Held exibitions at G:a Kraftstationen (Deje, Sweden), Karby Gård (Täby, Sweden), Galleri Borgenhad Holmqvist (Eskilstuna, Sweden) and at craft events. Is in collaboration with a crafter and friend in Stockholm, with whom she's also teaching felting.

There's challanges with reaching out with what she's doing - with PR. She finds it's difficult to write the texts for scholarships and funding. Crafting is very often overlooked and easily "falls through the cracks", since it's not art. It's important to think ahead, since it's not profitable as of now. She would not be able to manage if she didn't have her husband. It's a struggle to have economic sustainability.

Men nu gör jag ju en kombo här i vår med att gå tillbaka och jobba lite som förskolelärare men jag har ju många projekt på gång också, så jag ska inte jobba för mycket som förskolelärare eftersom jag har som vi pratat om här preciss två stora utställningar ochj ja fårfesten som är årets grej. Men jag behöver ju också det här eld i baken så att det blir gjort.

Tova- gammal teknik på nytt sätt. Gunilla Paetau Sjöberg Att välja färg- Berit Bergström Får boken- Anders Jansson, Nina Östman Felt passion- Ellen Bakker, RIchard Assman