Let's say you were a wealthy person in Oslo or Bergen, or in the valley of Gudbrandsdal in Norway in the 1700s, eager to display your status on the walls of your home.  For just the right continental touch, many such people chose to commission a tapestry, woven by a weaver from Brussels or Flanders.…

Midcentury Billedvev Mystery–Solved, a post from the blog Robbie LaFleur on Bloglovin’

Frida Hansen, I rødt. 1898

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See beautiful photos of Norwegian billedvev, or tapestry, in this section of the book: “Reflections of the Renaissance: The Tapestry Technique and Picture Weaving.”

If you are a Norwegian, or an American familiar with Norwegian billedvev (tapestry), you  probably recognize the most common motif used for medieval billedvev coverlets, the biblical parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins. Here is a Norwegian tapestry owned by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), with a row of wise virgins holding lamps filled…

Finally. This moose has been hanging around on the loom too long, as I’ve been working on my billedvev and kavelfrans classes. Some of you may have read about my work along the way, in “…