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| Dala Horse |
When we travel to Sweden and intends to buy the country's distinctive gift, then the objects most commonly proffered as souvenirs typical wooden horse sculpture is perhaps best known as the Dala Horse.
That's what happened when we walk to old town or Gamla Stan in Stockholm, Sweden. Almost all speciality stores post horse Dala different sizes and different colors. Painting shapes and embedded on a wooden horse that barely similar because it is based on an already existing hereditary.
According to the story of the shop owner in Gamla Stan, the Dala Horse is first created in the 16th century in wooden huts in the middle of the forest, while the men spent a long winter's night in front of the fireplace. Using a knife, they make wooden toys for his son's gift at home. The horse became the choice because the horse is an animal that is closest to the workers at once the most valuable.
Horses at once closely linked to the legends of the Vikings, the people who now inhabit the region of Scandinavia including Sweden. The god Odin retold for example, riding a horse named eight-legged Sleipnir.
But the horse or Dala in the vernacular is called Dalahast, not emulating the form of Sleipnir. These horses are rooted from the region of Dalarna, and originally-shaped plain, colorless. In the 1830s, the artist Stika Erik Hansson decorate wooden horses with commonly used on traditional Sweden trinkets. That was the pattern until now used to decorate Dala Horse.
The color red is the first and most common color used to paint the wooden horse Dala. But now, in many souvenir shops we can find the Dala Horse in different colors, black, white, blue, and red.
When you first see it and hold it, we was quite surprised with the price set for the wooden horse. The 10 centimeter toys for example, appreciated around Rp 400,000. Much more expensive than horse toy which can be ridden and lots for sale in the county line, west java for example.
But according to the seller, the price is comparable to the manufacturing process. "This toy is made by hand. The first printed pine wood, then cut according the shape, and then mashed into the shape of a horse. After dyed the base color, the craftsman should be paint the body of a horse by hand, "said the seller.
Another thing that makes the Dala Horse is so valuable is because he has become a kind of symbol for Sweden itself. Even in antiquity, this wooden horses had become goods that can be exchanged for other goods.
Therefore, many people buy souvenirs Dala Horse is not solely because of its shape or colour. "Buy a Dala Horse is buy the legend and the story of folk art, the Sweden" says that the seller ship to girls. Then there's completely when visiting Sweden Dala Horse without bringing along with us.
That's what happened when we walk to old town or Gamla Stan in Stockholm, Sweden. Almost all speciality stores post horse Dala different sizes and different colors. Painting shapes and embedded on a wooden horse that barely similar because it is based on an already existing hereditary.
According to the story of the shop owner in Gamla Stan, the Dala Horse is first created in the 16th century in wooden huts in the middle of the forest, while the men spent a long winter's night in front of the fireplace. Using a knife, they make wooden toys for his son's gift at home. The horse became the choice because the horse is an animal that is closest to the workers at once the most valuable.
Horses at once closely linked to the legends of the Vikings, the people who now inhabit the region of Scandinavia including Sweden. The god Odin retold for example, riding a horse named eight-legged Sleipnir.
But the horse or Dala in the vernacular is called Dalahast, not emulating the form of Sleipnir. These horses are rooted from the region of Dalarna, and originally-shaped plain, colorless. In the 1830s, the artist Stika Erik Hansson decorate wooden horses with commonly used on traditional Sweden trinkets. That was the pattern until now used to decorate Dala Horse.
The color red is the first and most common color used to paint the wooden horse Dala. But now, in many souvenir shops we can find the Dala Horse in different colors, black, white, blue, and red.
When you first see it and hold it, we was quite surprised with the price set for the wooden horse. The 10 centimeter toys for example, appreciated around Rp 400,000. Much more expensive than horse toy which can be ridden and lots for sale in the county line, west java for example.
But according to the seller, the price is comparable to the manufacturing process. "This toy is made by hand. The first printed pine wood, then cut according the shape, and then mashed into the shape of a horse. After dyed the base color, the craftsman should be paint the body of a horse by hand, "said the seller.
Another thing that makes the Dala Horse is so valuable is because he has become a kind of symbol for Sweden itself. Even in antiquity, this wooden horses had become goods that can be exchanged for other goods.
Therefore, many people buy souvenirs Dala Horse is not solely because of its shape or colour. "Buy a Dala Horse is buy the legend and the story of folk art, the Sweden" says that the seller ship to girls. Then there's completely when visiting Sweden Dala Horse without bringing along with us.
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