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Elisabeth Forsell

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25: 753: 747: 116:, the Stockholm authorities founded spinning schools in 1739. Finland, at the time a Swedish Province, was deemed especially suitable for the cultivation of linen, and a decision was made to appoint a spinning teacher on state expense to introduce the profession in Finland. Elisabeth Forsell, at that time a weaver at the 143:
in 1740–1747. Her students were likely exclusively women, as the profession of weaver was at that time customarily regarded as a woman's profession, and the majority of her students are described as maidservants, wives and daughters of craftsmen, though, reportedly, some women from the upper classes
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were also interested to learn the technique. She was met by some resistance from the local authorities and governor, often motivated by the controversy of a young woman using a power of attorney to demand assistance from the authorities.
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and the linen weaver profession in Finland, and had an unusual position for her gender at the time, being a woman sent on government support and power of attorney to in effect introduce a new profession.
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She is last mentioned in 1747; after this year, her life is unknown, but she is believed to have returned to Sweden proper, and left her weaving school to her student Juliana Garberg.
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1747) was a Swedish weaver regarded as a pioneer within the
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