ROSEAU, Minn. -- Forty-five years ago, Jean Honl fell in love with rosemaling. She took a community education class in 1974 and has been perfecting her skills in the traditional Norwegian art form ...

ROSEAU, Minn. — Thirty-five years ago, Jean Honl fell in love with rosemaling. She took a community education class in 1974 and has been perfecting her skills in the traditional Norwegian art form ...

DECORAH - From a plain block of basswood, Minnesota loons and fjord horses spring forth. From a plain strip of basswood, intricate patterns emerge in sampler style. Ten students ages 9 to 16 are ...

Lured by the idea of inexpensive land and the promise of opportunity, hundreds of thousands of Norwegians crossed the North Atlantic in the 19th century, as their Viking ancestors are thought to have ...

Sons of Norway members were treated to a presentation on hand-crafted, traditional Norwegian textile items Thursday in the Gyda Varden Lodge in Grand Forks. The speaker, Cathy Flaat Forgit of Fertile, ...

WINONA — Mary Koehler, of Winona, who is 100 percent Norwegian, believes it's important for her to carry on the traditions of her ancestors. So Koehler practices the art of rosemaling — a Norwegian ...

Greg Aldrich, of Billings, recently won a red ribbon in the annual National Norwegian-American Folk Art Exhibition at Vesterheim, the national Norwegian-American museum and heritage center in Decorah, ...

Swedish Dala horses and other pieces of Scandinavian folk art cover the walls of Mel Agen's Hastings home. On a floor loom in the living room, he's working on a Flessberg weaving project. He just ...

DECORAH — Kick off the holiday season with a Norwegian Christmas Celebration at Vesterheim, the National Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School, on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All outdoor ...

ERIE, Pa. (AP) - Shelley Kendall would rather be rosemaling. The daughter of a Norwegian mother (her father was German), she was the baby of six children, and the only one to learn the Norwegian folk ...