MÅLERÅS

Målerås old glassworks was founded in 1890. This was the time when industrialism had seriously established itself in Sweden. In the village Målerås, solidarity and the spirit of new enterprise had an ordeal during the 1980s, when the glassworks was threatened by "outside capital" take-over as well as by closing-down. In order to reassure the future of the village, Mats Jonasson and 15 of his craftsmen decided to buy the glassworks from the current owners, Kosta Glasswork. Of the 250 residents of the village, 80 decided to invest in the newly owned glassworks.

Primary location: Stockholm Sweden