"The Other Swedes"
~ Honoring Them and Their Works ~
~ Honoring Them and Their Works ~
Mr. and Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg
~ Remembering them and their “Swedish Crafts Shop”
of 65 years and 50 trips to Sweden
(1946-2011)
- containing the finest quality of Swedish goods -
A testament to carrying on Swedishness in Lindsborg is found with late Swede descendants Hilding Arnold Jaderborg (1921-2011) and his wife Esther Marie Dahlsten Jaderborg (1933-2017). Hilding Jaderborg's father, Thure Olof Jaderborg (1877-1954), a gifted voice professor at Bethany College and soloist in Messiah performances, with the help of a 1946 loan from Bethany College Dean and biology department head professor Emil O. Deere (1877-1966), established the beloved "Swedish Crafts."
This wonderful Swedish establishment of Lindsborg was destined to be a leader in the sale of fine authentic Swedish merchandise in the community, in the Smoky Valley and beyond Lindsborg for over 65 years. Hilding Jaderborg, many times accompanied by Mrs. Jaderborg, made over 50 trips to Sweden for their shop. The Swedish Crafts was a Swedish trendsetters by being the first to display the "Dala Horse" in front of their shop.
With the passing of Mr. Jaderborg in 2011, their beautiful Swedish Crafts shop eventually closed and a wonderful chapter of these Lindsborg Swedish merchants was sadly over but not forgotten among the Swedes of Lindsborg. For their reputation of humility and kindness and sharing the essence of Sweden through their former Swedish Crafts is a legacy which lives on in Lindsborg to this day!
They were my friends!
This wonderful Swedish establishment of Lindsborg was destined to be a leader in the sale of fine authentic Swedish merchandise in the community, in the Smoky Valley and beyond Lindsborg for over 65 years. Hilding Jaderborg, many times accompanied by Mrs. Jaderborg, made over 50 trips to Sweden for their shop. The Swedish Crafts was a Swedish trendsetters by being the first to display the "Dala Horse" in front of their shop.
With the passing of Mr. Jaderborg in 2011, their beautiful Swedish Crafts shop eventually closed and a wonderful chapter of these Lindsborg Swedish merchants was sadly over but not forgotten among the Swedes of Lindsborg. For their reputation of humility and kindness and sharing the essence of Sweden through their former Swedish Crafts is a legacy which lives on in Lindsborg to this day!
They were my friends!
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And their trendsetting example of a "Dala Horse'' in front of their shop spread throughout Lindsborg in another form due to the "Hemslöjd" shop established in 1984, directly across the street from their Swedish Crafts, where only in Lindsborg on-the-spot handcrafted Dala horse signs for homes are produced for sale in the United State and around the world.
Friends of the Jaderborgs, Lindsborg Swede descendants, the Kenneth Sjogrens and the Kenneth Swishers, established Hemslöjd as a Swedish import and woodworking shop where skilled local woodworkers and Swedish folk artists produced lovely Swedish gifts for the shop.
Thus, the Swedishness continues to this day at "Hemslöjd" which in Swedish means "handicraft." Advertised as "the leading Swedish store in the United States specializing in Swedish imports and Scandinavian gifts of all type," it also offers traditional Dala Horses directly from Sweden.
Go HERE to learn so much more about this great little Hemslöjd shop, and HERE to discover the history of the Dala Horse by Joyce England!
Go HERE also to see Lindsborg's most beautiful home that Hilding grew up in living in this Swedish American community found in the section: The Swedish Lindsborg Builders ~ "where the other Swedes lived"
*Source for text: Hemslöjd website
Friends of the Jaderborgs, Lindsborg Swede descendants, the Kenneth Sjogrens and the Kenneth Swishers, established Hemslöjd as a Swedish import and woodworking shop where skilled local woodworkers and Swedish folk artists produced lovely Swedish gifts for the shop.
Thus, the Swedishness continues to this day at "Hemslöjd" which in Swedish means "handicraft." Advertised as "the leading Swedish store in the United States specializing in Swedish imports and Scandinavian gifts of all type," it also offers traditional Dala Horses directly from Sweden.
Go HERE to learn so much more about this great little Hemslöjd shop, and HERE to discover the history of the Dala Horse by Joyce England!
Go HERE also to see Lindsborg's most beautiful home that Hilding grew up in living in this Swedish American community found in the section: The Swedish Lindsborg Builders ~ "where the other Swedes lived"
*Source for text: Hemslöjd website
The Deere House Dala Horse
Former students of Dean Deere, Rev. Perry and Alice Carlson, owners of Deere House
had Hemslöjd inscribe Deere House on their Swedish Dala Horse and 1940, the year the home was built.
Former students of Dean Deere, Rev. Perry and Alice Carlson, owners of Deere House
had Hemslöjd inscribe Deere House on their Swedish Dala Horse and 1940, the year the home was built.
Shirley Malm was one such very gifted artist at Hemslöjd painting the Dala Horses. Above may be an example of her work, like the example of her work below photographed in 2009.
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
* * *
All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
