Ida Björs (; born 1973) is a Swedish illustrator and

textile artist Textile arts are arts and crafts that use plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects. Textiles have been a fundamental part of human life since the beginning of civilization. The methods and materials use ...

. She was born and grew up in

Järvsö Järvsö (), locally known as ''Jarse'' (), is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and a parish situated in Ljusdal Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 1,407 inhabitants in 2010. From Järvsö, people commute to Ljusdal, Färila, Bollnäs, a ...

Career

Ida Björs studied at

Konstfack Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden. History Konstfack has had several different names since it was founded in 1844 by the eth ...

in Stockholm from 1995 to 1999. In 2013, she was awarded a grant by the newly instated Björn Bergs Artistry Foundation. She has worked together with the musician

Fredy Clue Fredy Samuel Lundh (born 1994 or 1995), known professionally as Fredy Clue, is a Swedish folk musician and artist from Gothenburg. Educated at the Högskolan för scen och musik, Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg, Clue ...

to design the

Bäckadräkten Bäckadräkten () is Sweden's first unisex folk costume, designed in 2022 by musician Fredy Clue and textile designer Ida Björs. The design merges elements that are traditionally considered either male or female, such as the vest that is also ...

, a unisex

folk costume Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing of an ethnic group, nation or region, and expresses cultural, religious or national identity. An ethnic group's clothing may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic ...

that was displayed at the Textile Museum of Borås.

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* {{Authority control Living people 1973 births 20th-century Swedish women artists People from Järvsö Swedish textile artists 21st-century Swedish illustrators Swedish women illustrators Konstfack alumni