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Kamma Moller Zethraus (July 20, 1897 - Sept 7 1990) was an award winning Mid-Century Danish-American tapestry and rug designer. She was the first weaver to work in the Dorothy Liebes Textile studio in San Francisco and helped establish the Liebes studio in New York City. She was known for her use of textures

Early Life
Born Kamma Moller in Denmark, she was the daughter of Fredrik and Amelie Moller. Kamma studied art in a private school in Denmark before immigrating to America in 1922. She began to learn weaving on her own before joining the Swedish School of American Arts in San Francisco where she studied weaving with Mrs. Valborg ("Mama") Gravander. She was hired by Dorothy Liebes in 1933 as the first weaver in the San Francisco Studio.

In 1923, Kamma married Swedish-American engineer, Carl-Louis Zethraus and had a daugher, Ivy Zethraus (Wellington) in 1928.

In 1936-1937, Kamma studied weaving and spinning in Stockholm, Sweden at the Lansdochstads Hemskadsforening School. She was able to bring techniques she learned there back to the Liebes Studio where she remained employed until 1955.

Career
Kamma's first work was a drapery called "Cala Lily" which was exhibited at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco where it was awarded First Place.

She was recently featured in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum online Exhibit in New York City.

https://exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/dorothy-liebes/kamma-zethraus/?topic=studio&cat_page=11&tag_page=1

She exhibited at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition

Her work is featured in the book "Rug Weaving for everyone" by Osma Galinger Tod.

Her scrapbook is part of the permanent collection of the Oakland Museum in California.

https://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/200491

Kamma was part of the first Marin County Weavers' Festival and is described in Handweaver & Craftsman Magazine 1950 Vol 1, p 14

"Kamma Zethraus of Kentfield, California, who weaves both in the traditional style of her native Denmark, and, preferably, in the contemporary style, for which she is nationally known"

She received Best in Show award at the Contemporary Handweavers Exhibit at the De Young Museium in 1955.

She began to learn weaving on her own.