Viking Traveller 2nd Issue
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NATURE<br />
FALU RED<br />
Known for its use on wooden cottages called ‘torps’<br />
(left) and barns, falu red dye originated from copper<br />
mines in Sweden and has been used throughout<br />
Scandinavia since the 16th century. The actual colour can<br />
vary from almost black to a bright, light red. Today it’s<br />
still widely used in the countryside—in fact the Finnish<br />
expression ‘punainen tupa ja perunamaa’, the equivalent of<br />
our ‘2.4 children’, means ‘a red house and a potato field’.<br />
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