TENNIS champion Bjorn Borg, IKEA, Volvo, Saab, music group Abba, director Ingmar Bergman, actress Ingrid Bergman. Most Americans are familiar with these famous Swedes or the goods the companies export ...

Red wooden horses called dala horses have been traditional handicrafts in Nusnäs, Sweden, for centuries. The horses are painted a specific shade of red called Falu red that comes from the mines in the ...

Red-painted wooden horses have become a global symbol of Sweden. But have you ever stopped to wonder why? Read the history of the Dala horse and its rise to fame. If you do a Google search for "symbol ...

Centuries ago, during the long cold evenings in central Sweden, men would take the wood scraps from the local furniture making trade and carve toys for children. The toys were painted with pigments ...

The Dala Horse - "Dalahäst" in Swedish - is traditionally made from red painted wood and decorated with a green and white pattern. Still made by hand in the age of mass production, it's become a ...

What traditional Swedish Dala Horses usually look like. Photo: Trons/TT American street artist Shai Dahan grabbed the attention of Swedes when he painted a traditional Dala Horse in his town of Borås.

A large red Dala horse statue – a symbol of Scandia’s Swedish roots – has stood guard outside Scandia Community Center since 2006. Not anymore. Vandals smashed the concrete horse sometime early Sunday ...