styles

Telemark
Hallingdal
Valdres
Rogaland
Os
Gudbrandsdal
Vest Agder

Telemark style of rosemaling: back to styles

The Telemark style is asymmetrical with a root center from which a scroll branches out with leaves and flowers that are varied and irregular. Designs are "fantasy-like" and transparent. (In recent years a shaded, opaque Telemark is preferred.)
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