Baldishol Tapestry

Louise Kildal visited the farm some years later, found the "rag", and cleaned it, revealing the tapestry.

She hung it in her living room and invited the museum director Henrik A. Grosch to view it.

[1] The tapestry is woven from spælsau wool and linen and the yarn was dyed with vegetable dyes.

[1] The weaver is unknown, but it could have been woven in Norway, perhaps in a monastery, or in a small workshop in England or France.

The tapestry was crafted using the Gobelin technique, and is one of the few surviving examples in Europe, and the only one in Norway.

[2] However, the loom technology of the time would not have been able to create an unbroken tapestry depicting all 12 months in one continuous piece (such a weaving would be approximately 12 meters long).

On the left, a bearded man in a tunic stands beneath an archway reading "April".