Lilja Husmo

Lilja is a costume designer, maker, and researcher specialising in 18th and 19th century dressmaking with a passion for Viking and Iron Age clothing. Orginially from Norway, Lilja studied Costume Design and Construction at Queen Margaret University, graduating with First Class Honours. In 2019 she supervised the Howden Park Centre Pantomime, Cinderella. In 2020, she designed Napier University’s theatre production, The Key Will Keep the Lock. In 2022 she led workshops for Renfrewshire Council, creating historical costume, in a project called Monumental. She has also created several historical costumes, including: a Viking Costume based on the findings at a Birka Grave; a 1790s gown for Miss Dalrymple of Newhailes House; a 1760s gown for Elizabeth Dawson of Gladstone’s Land’s draper’s shop; and a 1900s East Lothian bondager’s costume. In 2022 she made costumes for Jack Dickson’s production of The Girls of Cartridge Hut No7, and for PACE Theatre Co’s pantomime Cinderella.