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develop folk traditions such as weaving. By 1914, their differing ambitions had reached the point where they could no longer work together. Fick established her business as Sankt
Birgittaskolan or the Saint Birgitta School while Glantzberg opened hers a few hundred metres away, maintaining the name Birgittaskolan. After Glantzberg had fought over her establishment's name in the courts, a verdict in the Court of Appeals in 1932 forced her to change it to the Elisabeth Glantzberg School.
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Stockholm, was adapt in lace and embroidery, while Glantzberg, brought up in a vicarage in central Sweden, was keen to support and
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