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Various styles of rosemaling:
The Telemark style is asymmetrical with a root center from which a scroll branches out with leaves and flowers that are varied and irregular. Designs are "fantasy-like" and transparent. (In recent years a shaded, opaque Telemark is preferred.)Baroque scrolls and acanthus leaves wrap around a central flower. The designs are symmetrical, using opaque color and not generally shaded by lying next to one another. Backgrounds are red, black-green, dark green, and a lighter blue-green.
Flowers gather in a bouquet or garland, gathered in an urn or hanging from a rope. Realistic flowers which can be identified and given a name. Leaves are slender, long, s-shapes with a second S turning it at the end. Flowers grow from blue landscapes.
In Rogaland, flowers are more important than scrolls and leaves. Tulips, stylized roses, 4 and 6-petal flowers, and the daisy pull-out are used. Symmetrical design, opaque color on dark backgrounds, and the use of cross-hatching, dots and teardrops characterize Rogaland.
Typically backgrounds are white or red. Designs include geometric shapes such as cubes and squares, architectural motifs such as churches or fine houses. Flowers, both symmetrical and asymmetrical are grouped on stems. Heavy line detail on leaves. Transparent, bright colors; little blending; saw-toothed borders.
Gudbrandsdal style is an imitation of carving. Acanthus scroll and leaves predominate in a C with an S extension. Shading gives leaves a 3-dimmensional look. The flowers used are tulips and 6 or 8-petal roses that center in the C and, again, in the S above. Often symmetrical.
Symmetrical and geometric. Typified by light colors on a dark ground, teardrops by the dozen along with leaves and scrolls. Opaque colors, not shaded, and with red, black and white overlay. Oval flowers, split down the middle with contrasting colors.
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