Anna Casparsson (1861–1961) lived to be 100, and spent most of those years in a villa outside Stockholm surrounded by luminaries, who gathered at her grand piano. Throughout her life, between concerts and salons, she produced some of the most extraordinary embroideries in history. Re-using pieces of silk and velvet as a foundation, Casparsson stitched on pearls, sequins, shells, mirror shards, threads of silver and gold, antique lace, and buttons to create opulent, willfully strange compositions. She rarely signed her work, and gave what she made to friends. It was not until Casparsson was in her 80s that her first major exhibition was held, and the last during her lifetime opened at Moderna Museet the year she turned 99. Now, for the first time since 1960, the museum is showing 29 of her textile artworks, visual worlds drawn from folk and biblical stories and classical music. —Elena Clavarino