Host Organisations
The Baltic Wool Conference is hosted by The Gotland Green Center in cooperation with Region Gotland and Gotlands Museum.
Gotland Green Center
Gotland Green Center train, develop, sell services and products and is an attractive meeting place for the agricultural industries. Gotland Green Center run education within the agricultural area at high school level (swedish gymnasium) and for adults. It is a meeting place for farmers, craftsmen and chefs from the different parts of the foodsystem. Gotland has a large amount of professional sheepfarmers, craftsmen and processors that work with refining all products from sheep. At Gotland Green Center most of the advisory companies that work with farmers are stationed. Education, research and cooperation are important parts of a successful business.
Mats Pettersson, CEO of Hushållningssällskapet Gotland
Gotlands Museum
Besides being the cultural historical museum of Gotland, Gotlands museum also have a regional mission to support craft, design and small-scale industry. Wool craft is a part of the cultural heritage and wool business is still important on Gotland, hence we are working a lot with different wool projects. Baltic Wool Conference is a good way to promote the Gotlandic wool industry, create new contacts and opportunities for further development together with the countries around the Baltic Sea.
Anso Norling, Regional crafts consultant, Gotlands Museum
Region Gotland
The Gotland Region believes that there is a great deal of knowledge and a great potential for development around the wool business in Gotland. Partly in entrepreneurship, but also locally in the micro industries. We would like to contribute to the development of the wool industry. We strongly believe this conference in the long term will contribute to many of our strategic focus areas. It will be a visitor occasion in October, it will lead to development of the wool industry and it will strengthen craftsmanship and a living cultural heritage.
Nils-Erik Selin, Head of growth and development, Region Gotland
Gotland Green Center
Gotland Green Center train, develop, sell services and products and is an attractive meeting place for the agricultural industries. Gotland Green Center run education within the agricultural area at high school level (swedish gymnasium) and for adults. It is a meeting place for farmers, craftsmen and chefs from the different parts of the foodsystem. Gotland has a large amount of professional sheepfarmers, craftsmen and processors that work with refining all products from sheep. At Gotland Green Center most of the advisory companies that work with farmers are stationed. Education, research and cooperation are important parts of a successful business.
Mats Pettersson, CEO of Hushållningssällskapet Gotland
The National Swedish
Handicraft Council
The National Swedish Handicraft Council (NFH) is a government agency under the Ministry of Culture with the task of promoting handicrafts. Important partners for the Authority’s work are the country’s regions, civil society organizations and other cultural authorities. Priority areas include sustainability, cultural and creative industries as well as working with the intangible cultural heritage.
Since the autumn of 2018, a national developer has been focusing on sustainability and wool issues at NFH. The goal is an agenda for how the wool issues, like classification and infrastructure, should be solved at national level together with various actors and authorities. This is done in the form of seminars, conferences and networking, both within Sweden and abroad. The initiative “Baltic Wool Conference” is part of the work to promote the Swedish wool industry, create new contacts and opportunities for further development together with the countries around the Baltic Sea.
Annkristin Hult, National Developer
Region Gotland
The Gotland Region believes that there is a great deal of knowledge and a great potential for development around the wool business in Gotland. Partly in entrepreneurship, but also locally in the micro industries. We would like to contribute to the development of the wool industry. We strongly believe this conference in the long term will contribute to many of our strategic focus areas. It will be a visitor occasion in October, it will lead to development of the wool industry and it will strengthen craftsmanship and a living cultural heritage.
Nils-Erik Selin, Head of growth and development, Region Gotland
Partners 2021
Sponsors 2021
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Sponsor Silverlock Gotland Ram
Hangaround - Baltic Wool Friend
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My company offers guided tours to both individuals and groups with study visits to selected companies in the lamb and wool sector on Gotland The tours of course also include general Gotland information, transport and meals if desired. Languages Swedish, Estonian and English Contact us for a quote! www.noodapera.com
Swedish fibre - Sandy Zetterlund
My passion for knitting and wool contributed to making a spinner out of me. After moving to Sweden, I encountered a friend's passion for her Swedish sheep and their wool. I was saddened by their plight, so when the opportunity presented itself for me to share a piece of these delightful Swedish sheep with you, I grabbed it. I provide Swedish wool to hand spinners and crafters all over the world.
Wool India - Navratanmal Ashok Kumar Surana Woollen Pvt Ltd
We are early stage wool processors and stockist of natural fibres. Having an experience of more than 41 years, our company enjoys a healthy share of total raw wool import in pan India woollen market. Our Product lines mainly consists of raw wool and other natural fibres, woollen yarn and wool tops. We import wool from virtually all wool growing nations (around 50 countries) and can supply mostly all the qualities of wool either in greasy or scoured form. With a Scouring Capacity of 250 tons of wool every month, we can provide a great product at low cost with considerable flexibility. We also deal with other natural fibres like Cashmere, Mohair, Llama, Alpaca etc.Our Spinning facility in Bikaner, with a production capacity of 75 tons monthly, facilitates us to manufacture all types of worsted and semi- worsted yarns. We specialize in Carpet Graded Woollen Yarn of different counts with natural shades and patterns made with different types of wool and other blends as per the customer’s requirement. We regularly Process Merino and Carpet graded Wool Tops from 16.5-40 microns in different natural colours.
THE PROJECT TEAM 2021
We are the team working with the Baltic Wool Conference 2021.
You can contact us on info@balticwoolconference.com
Annkristin Hult
National Developer Sustainability
National Swedish Handicraft Council
Frida Lindroth
Project Manager
Gotland Convention Bureau
Anso Norling
Crafts Consultant
Gotland Museum
Jenny Andersson
Owner of Gotland's Wool Scouring Mill
Ullkontoret
Riina Noodapera
Project Leader Baltic Wool Cooperation The Rural Economy and Agricultural Society Gotland
Fia Söderberg
Project Leader Baltic Wool Conference Green Center Gotland
