Putting together designs for the Valley Grove tapestries is an enormous puzzle. I want to use every opportunity to reference something from the history of
Author: Robbie LaFleur
Weaving in Minnesota, when I can!
Valley Grove Tapestries: Working on Animals
The Three Wise Men bringing gifts to the infant Jesus were popular figures in Norwegian tapestries of the late 1500s-1700s. Many of these Adoration tapestries
Valley Grove Tapestries: In the Graveyard
A graveyard flanks the Valley Grove churches, filled with interesting memorials–some very old, some quite recent. My tapestries will hang in the stone church next
Collections Connection Talk: Mixing Historical Motifs in Norwegian Tapestry
Today I highlighted many of my favorite works from Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in a “Collections Connection” talk on Zoom. It will be produced as a
Collections Connection: Billedvev (Tapestry Weaving)
I am giving a short lecture on Zoom tomorrow (June 8, 2021, 12 noon) for Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Collections Connection: Billedvev (Tapestry Weaving). You can
Another Missing Tapestry Mystery to Solve: Frida Hansen’s Mermaid from 1925
Help find a missing Frida Hansen tapestry, “The Little Mermaid” from 1925.
