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A Dala horse or Dalecarlian horse is a traditional carved, painted wooden statuette of a horse originating in the Swedish province of Dalarna. The Dala horse has been widely used as a toy for children
The world's largest Dala horse, made of concrete and located in Avesta, Sweden.
World's largest Dala horse painting, painted by Shai Dahan
The wooden horses are painted in the kurbits style. This one is from around 1950.
A Dala horse painted by Rytter Olof Matsson, Risa, around 1910.
The Scandinavian flat-plane style of woodcarving is a style of figure carving. The figures are carved in large flat planes, created primarily using a carving knife. Tool marks are left in the carving
Dala horse
…150 years old. At least nine different people contribute their skills to create each horse. The distinctive shape of the horse is due to the usage of flat-plane style carving. An apocryphal legend of the Dala horse is that they became the national toy in 1716. According to the legend, soldiers loyal to King Charles XII were…
A Dalecarlian horse being carved in this style