Weaving Bewitchment: Gerhard Munthe’s Folk-Tale Tapestries from Vesterheim, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2003.

Laurann Gilbertson and Kathleen Stokker present a fascinating look at Norwegian folklore through the tapestry designs of Gerhard Munthe, a landscape painter and pictorial tapestry designer in Norway during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Little Kjersti tapestry designed by Gerhard Munthe, Vesterheim