Mats Jonasson Swedish Art Glass

Maleras old glassworks was founded in 1890. This was the time when industrialism had seriously established itself in Sweden. In the village Maleras solidarity and the spirit of new enterprise had an ordeal during the 1980s, when the glassworks was threatened by a hostile take-over as well as by closing-down. Therefore some sensible people gathered around the fatal question concerning the continuous destiny of Maleras and decided to concentrate united efforts to reassure the future of the village. The engraving artist Mats Jonasson became one of the leading people within this process.

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