English

Fyrileivstugo, the interior of a living room from 1932 produced by Olav Fyrileiv, a woodcarver and rosemaler. It is in the collection of the Heddal Open Air Museum in Notodden, Telemark, Norway.

Noun

rosemaler ‎(plural rosemalers)

1. (US) A person who practises rosemaling.
   • 2006, Philip Nusbaum, “Rosemaling”, in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew [R. L.] Cayton, editors, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-34886-9, page 410:

     Vesterheim, the Norwegian American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, […] sponsored a national exhibition of rosemaling in 1967 and began inviting Norwegian masters to the museum to give workshops to grassroots rosemalers.

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