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Viola Hildegard Gråsten (born Viola Hildegard Forsberg) (18 November 1910 – 20 October 1994) was a Swedish textile designer. Gråsten was born in Keuruu in Häme, Finland and was brought up as a foster daughter by the Finnish Finance Minister, Ernst Gråsten. She studied for four years at the Central School of Crafts in Helsinki until 1936, after which she worked as a designer at the Friends of Finnish Handicraft. In 1944, because of wartime yarn shortages in Finland, she moved to Sweden and designed shaggy rugs for Textiles & Interiors in Stockholm. A year later she took a post at the NK Textile Studio, where she began to design patterns for textiles and made a reputation for her colourful geometric designs. In 1956 she became artistic director of fashion textiles at Mölnlycke Weavers, where

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rdfs:comment	Viola Hildegard Gråsten (born Viola Hildegard Forsberg) (18 November 1910 – 20 October 1994) was a Swedish textile designer. Gråsten was born in Keuruu in Häme, Finland and was brought up as a foster daughter by the Finnish Finance Minister, Ernst Gråsten. She studied for four years at the Central School of Crafts in Helsinki until 1936, after which she worked as a designer at the Friends of Finnish Handicraft. In 1944, because of wartime yarn shortages in Finland, she moved to Sweden and designed shaggy rugs for Textiles & Interiors in Stockholm. A year later she took a post at the NK Textile Studio, where she began to design patterns for textiles and made a reputation for her colourful geometric designs. In 1956 she became artistic director of fashion textiles at Mölnlycke Weavers, where (en) Viola Hildegard Gråsten, ursprungligen Forsberg, född 18 november 1910 i Keuru i Tavastehus län, Finland, död 20 oktober1994 i Stockholm, var en svensk textilkonstnär och tecknare. Gråsten växte upp som fosterdotter till den finske finansministern . Hon studerade vid Centralskolan för konstflit, nuvarande Aalto, i Helsingfors och kom till Sverige 1944. Som tecknare medverkade hon i Bonniers månadstidning samt Dagens Nyheter. Gråsten är representerad vid Röhsska museet med ryan Blå måne samt vid Nationalmuseum med Trägud. Hon är begravd på Galärvarvskyrkogården i Stockholm. (sv)
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