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INDUSTRIAL ARTS AND
SCULPTURE
At an early period, the Norwegian people had begun to exercise
their in-born artistic sense upon the articles employed in
daily life. Even the prehistoric age has bequeathed to us
interesting wood-carving, such as the heads of animals upon the viking
ship from Gokstad, as well as metal work which is partly, at any
rate, of native origin; and the oldest sagas speak of woven pictures.
It is indeed chiefly these branches, textile work, metal work, and
wood-carving, besides decorative painting that have produced really
national forms and types as the foundation for the purely artistic
labours of the people.
Textile work is divided naturally into embroideries and woven
materials. Embroidery, both white and coloured, was long ago
executed with much artistic skill. Gorgeous chasubles from later
mediæval times exhibit work of a highly artistic character. The
national embroidery is still preserved in many parts of the
country. The ancient coloured embroidery in wool and silk is
most effective.
Among our national woven articles, the cloths with figures
woven upon them occupy an especially prominent position. One
cloth (from Baldeshol Church) dates apparently from the 12th
century. It represents two of the months in allegorical figures,
and is thus a fragment. The figures are woven into romanesque
arches, and the entire composition, the dresses and the border
consisting of plants and birds, recalls the Bayeux tapestry. With
this, probably foreign, exception, our wealth of picture-weavings
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