Olivia Henley is a student of history in more ways than one. She received her Master’s degree from Rutgers University, but yearns to move past the page and learn from history by emulating how things were done in the past to better understand the context in which people lived. She specializes in women’s history and material culture, converging on textile and fashion history.
Many may know of Carl Larsson, the famous Swedish Arts and Crafts painter who depicted many scenes of domestic life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, his wife, Karin Larsson, was also an artist in her own right.