| Erika Aittamaa | |
| Birth Name: | Maria Erika Olofsdotter Kruukka |
| Birth Date: | 22 February 1866 |
| Birth Place: | Junosuando, Sweden |
| Death Place: | Junosuando, Sweden |
| Nationality: | Swedish |
Maria Erika Olofsdotter Aittamaa (22 February 1866 - 15 December 1952) was a Swedish artisan of Tornedalian descent, famed as the inventor of the Lovikkavante mitten.
Aittamaa was born to a poor family with many children.[1] A part of the Finnic Meänkieli-speaking population of the Norrbotten County in northern Sweden,[2] she lived in Lovikka with her husband and children and started to sell mittens to make money. In 1892 she invented the Lovikkavante, a special kind of mittens.[3] Demand for Erika's mittens became so great that she taught others how to make them.[4] During the 1930s a local teacher found that she could patent the design. The process however cost money and although the teacher found people who would fund the cost, Aittamaa refused to take charity.