Red wooden Dala Horse with height ca 50 cm

Red Dala Horse

Height: 50 cm

Dala (Dalahästen) is an exclusive hand made wooden Swedish souvenir. Dala horse (Dalecarlian) is one of the most popular Swedish hand crafts. Traditionally a dala horse is painted bright red with details and a harness in white, green, yellow and blue. It may also be painted bright blue or, in the Rättvik area, grey. The somewhat odd shape of the horse is said to be derived from the clocks industry in the region. The horses were originally made of the cutoff corners when making the round clock face.

Nils Olssons Hemslöjd is almost as old. Today most horses are made in Nusnäs, a little village outside Mora. We offer Dala horses from Nils Olssons Hemslöjd. The wood used in carving dala horse comes from the slow-growing pine forest around Lake Siljan. This wood is perfect for carpentry and carving. The trees to be made into horses are marked out while still standing in the forest. Only the best timber will be selected for carving into horses. The trees are felled and sawn into pieces of a suitable size for the blanks that will eventually be made into Dalecarlian (Dala) horses.