Ingela Berntsson was born in 1950 on the island of “Stora Askerö” in Bohus County on the west coast. After school, she attended weaving school and studied at HDK (Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk) in Gothenburg, where Ingela Berntsson trained as a textile designer between 1971 and 1975. After completing her studies at HDK, she came to Klässbol as an apprentice weaver in 1976.

From the very beginning, weaving was the textile technique that interested her the most. As she says herself, she was “completely captivated” by weaving, but also by the people at the weaving mill. Linen is the fabric that fascinates Ingela Berntsson the most. She has been very interested in developing different techniques to increase the expressive power of the woven image.

Ingela Berntsson not only works with textile design but also with coloring. Not least because she considers coloring to be the basis for all other types of image production. She has had exhibitions at, among others: Röhsska Museum (Gothenburg), Nordic Textile Trienal and Art Forum (Norrköping).

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“When the linen is mangled to a shine, the pattern appears distinct, even in a completely white tablecloth. This happens because the light is reflected differently from the warp and weft threads. If you go around the table a quarter turn, the pattern becomes the opposite – the light becomes dark and the dark becomes light. It's magical.”