(Exhibition text in English)
1940 Sven Fristedt is born in Stockholm
1957 Attends Konstfack, the University of Arts, Craft & Design, studies decorative painting for one semester
1958–1960 Attends Beckmans College of Design, studies fashion
1958 Internship with Borås Wäfveri AB. His first industrially produced fabric, Plexus, is printed by Ljungbergs Textiltryck AB in Floda.
1960-1961 Designs Exotica and Fioro for the STOBO company
1961 Scholarship from The Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, travels to Italy
1960–1963 Employed with Mab&Mya in Malmö
1962 His first collection Flora and Pomona for Mab&Mya on show at the NK department store
1962–1964 Designs patterns for Katja of Sweden’s fashion collections
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1964 Attends Beckmans College of Design, studies illustration
1965 Employed at Borås Wäfveri AB
1966 His first collection for Borås Wäfveri AB / Borås Cotton Studio Nu blommar de’ on show at Form Design Center in Stockholm
1966 Rents a studio in Andrarum, Österlen, for the summer
1967 Designs for IKEA are printed by Borås Wäfveri AB
1968 The first special collection is presented in the IKEA catalogue, featuring Myrten among other designs
1972 A new collection for the American market is launched by Jack Lenor Larsen’s company in New York
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1973 The exhibition Glas & Beton at Sverigehuset in Stockholm features fabrics designed in collaboration with Vivianne Sjölin
1975 Designs the drop curtain Liv for the new hospital in Värnamo
1979–1980 Designs four drop curtains for schools and assembly halls in Saudi Arabia. The 24-metres-wide and 9-metres-high velvet drop curtains are handprinted by Ljungbergs
1981 Moves to Simrishamn
1983 Recipient of the award Excellent Swedish Design for his bed linen Planka/Ribb
1984 Receives an honourable mention at the Swedish Design Awards for his Satin Cross Collection
1985 Solo exhibition Målningar Collage Broderier (Paintings Collages Embroideries) at Gallery A E Boj, Stockholm
1986 Exhibition Grönländska kajaker och Svenska anoraker (Greenland Kayaks and Swedish Anoraks) with Pekka Niemelä at Gallery A E Boj, Stockholm
1988 Exhibition Ränder och Blad, Päron och Moln (Stripes and Leaves, Pears and Clouds) produced by Kalmar Art Museum
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1992 Designs the drop curtain Klipp till for the auditorium at the Textile Museum in Borås
1994 Recipient of a ten-year long-term scholarship from the Swedish Visual Artists’ Fund
1994 Recipient of the Kasthalls Award for his outstanding textile interior design
1999 Hand-tufted carpets in the Handtuftat & Handtryckt (Hand-tufted & Hand-printed) exhibition at the gallery Järrestad 15, Österlen
2006 Solo exhibition Objekt & Textil (Objects & Textiles) at Gallery Max in Ystad
2016 Designs Happy Leaves for Borås Cotton
2021 Exhibition Så kan det bli med vår fantasi (Where Our Imagination Leads Us) at Gallery Zadig in Backåkra
2023–2024 Retrospective exhibition Sven Fristedt – Master of Patterns, Kulturen in Lund