TheTomten Catalog 2012-2013 CARL LARSSON: SWEDEN’S MOST BELOVED ARTIST Carl Larsson Enclosure Cards This gift enclosure pack contains 10 cards and envelopes (5 each of 2 designs), Esbjörn Doing his Homework and Karin at the Window. Blank inside. Size: 2.25" x 3" $5.95/pkg. CRD 660 Carl Larsson Postcard Book Carl Larsson 2013 Calendar A collection of Swedish artist Carl Larsson rendered charming scenes postcards to keep of his home in cheerful watercolors that document his Carl Larsson Cards or send. Many of family’s idyllic country life. Size: 13" x 12" This card pack contains 8 cards (and 8 envelopes), two each of four these images were designs, featuring Carl Larsson’s colorful paintings of children. $13.99 CAL 406 originally published in Larsson’s 1899 book, A Home. Blank inside. Size: 4.63" x 6" $12.95/box CRD 650 30 postcards. Size: 4.81" x 6.88" $9.95 ABK 406 # 150 # 151 # 152 # 153 # 154 Carl Larsson Bookmarks Size: 2.31" x 8.5" $1.25 each Home Through the Carl Larsson NOV 150 Crayfishing NOV 153 Britta & Cat Paintings of Carl Larsson Coloring Book NOV 151 Wash House NOV 154 Karin & Kersti In the design and decoration of their This 48 page coloring book has 22 NOV 152 Karin at Window countryside home, Carl and Karin images to color, with color pictures Larsson created a style which influ- of the original paintings for reference. Published with the National Museum ences Swedish design to this day. This Carl Larsson Cards book celebrates the virtues of home of Stockholm. 800-468-2424 utilizing the paintings of Carl Larsson. $7.95 CRC 450 This notecard folio contains 10 cards Hardcover, 32 pages. (5 each of 2 designs), and 10 envelopes. Images include Letter Writing and www.skandisk.com $19.95 ABK 400 The Kitchen. Size: 4.75" x 6.75" Blank inside. $10.95/box CRD 774 CARL LARSSON’S PAINTINGS FROM A BYGONE AGE CARL LARSSON PUZZLES A FAmily • A Home • A FArm Paintings from a Bygone Age The paintings in these books depict Larsson’s home and family in the village of Sundborn, Sweden in the late 1800s, where he lived with his wife Karin and eight children. Hardcovers, $24.95 each: ABK 402 Carl Larsson’s A Family CARL LARSSON PUZZLE: CARL LARSSON PUZZLE: ABK 403 Carl Larsson’s A Home A Day of Celebration Crayfishing ABK 404 Carl Larsson’s A Farm 300-Piece Puzzle $14.95 NOV 160 1000-Piece Puzzle $18.95 NOV 165 2 SCANDINAVIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS, GIFT ENCLOSURES, AND STATIONERY KIRSTEN’S CHRISTMAS CARDS TOMTEN CHRISTMAS CARDS by Svein Solem This folio contains 12 cards, three each of four designs. The legend of the tomte is explained on the back of each These Christmas cards feature card. Card size: 6" x 4.6" Norwegian artist Svein Solem’s Greeting: delightful paintings of Tomte “God Jul! Wishing you (or Nisse) going about the busi- a Merry Christmas ness of preparing for Christmas. and a Happy New Year” The greeting is appropriate in Kirsten’s Christmas Cards Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish: $12.95 CRD 980 God Jul! Wishing you a Merry Gift Enclosure Cards Christmas and a Happy New Year Enclosure cards & envelopes. Two designs per package. Folio contains 8 cards; 2 each Card size: 2.25" x 3" of 4 designs. The legend of the $5.95/pkg. of 10: tomte is explained on the back of each card. Porridge/Lantern CRD 970 Svein Solem Tomten Skater/Skier CRD 972 Christmas Cards $12.95 CRD 940 TOMTEN CHRISTMAS CARDS by Alan Furst ANTIQUE NORWEGIAN BUNAD CARDS These cards are reproductions of turn-of- the-century postcards featuring traditional Norwegian costumes, bunads. Blank inside. Package contains 8 cards with envelopes (all different designs). Card size: 4.63" x 6" Bunad Cards $12.95 CRD 740 Also available: Bunad Gift Enclosure Cards According to Scandinavian legend, the tomte is the “protector of the farm” Gift enclosure cards & envelopes. Ten cards per package, five each of two designs (first two shown above). through many generations. His only demand is a bowl of rice porridge every Christmas Eve. These cards have the legend of the tomten printed on the back. Bunad Gift Enclosures (2.25" x 3") $5.95 CRD 750 Includes 12 cards & envelopes (2 each of six designs). Inside greetings vary. Alan Furst’s Tomten Christmas Cards $12.95 CRD 910 TROLL ENCLOSURE CARDS by Theodor Kittelsen ROSEMALING CARDS by Ethel Kvalheim Bestselling Cards! Beloved Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen captured the secret mystique of trolls in his SWEDISH FOLK ART CARDS drawings and paintings. Ten cards per package, by Linda Allen five each of two designs. Card size: 2.25" x 3" Charming dalamålning images of Swedish customs Troll Gift Enclosure Cards and scenes from a bygone age. Each box has 8 cards $5.95 CRD 730 (2 ea. of 4 designs), & envelopes. Card size: 4.63" x 6" Ethel Kvalheim of Stoughton, ERITAGE TATIONERY Wisconsin, was awarded the St. Olav Linda Allen Folk Art Cards 1 $12.95 CRD 760 H S Medal by the King of Norway for her Linda Allen Folk Art Cards 2 $12.95 CRD 766 by Ethel Kvalheim contributions to this art. This card pack contains 8 cards/8 envelopes Also available: Linda Allen Enclosure Cards (all different designs). Blank inside. Swedish folk art Size: 4.63" x 6" $12.95 CRD 700 gift enclosure Also available: cards & envelopes. Ten cards per Gift Enclosure Cards package, five each Gift enclosure cards & envelopes. of two designs. Ten cards per package, five each of Size: 2.25" x 3" two designs— navy blue & tan. Rosemaling Gift Enclosures Linda Allen Gift Enclosures $5.95 CRD 770 This portfolio contains 24 sheets of decorated (2.25" x 3") $5.95 CRD 710 (Not all designs shown) Linda Allen Heritage Stationery featured on page 31. paper (6.25" x 8.63"), & 12 envelopes. $12.95 CRD 210 3 Viking Lore and Legends • norse MythoLogy Vikings: The North Vikings: A History Vikings: Voyagers of Oxford Illustrated Historical Atlas of the Atlantic Saga Smithsonian by Robert Ferguson Discovery and Plunder History of the Vikings Vikings by John Haywood Museum of Natural History A sweeping picture of the by Mark Harrison Edited by Peter Sawyer This atlas illustrates the Viking This beautiful book focuses on the Norsemen, one of history’s A detailed look at the Viking Hersir, This lavishly illustrated book by influence extending from the Holy Viking presence in North America most amazing civilizations, by a the raiding warrior of the Viking leading international scholars Land to Newfoundland, as explorers, before Columbus. It also includes leading scholar of Scandinavian world, and the famed Viking long- presents an authoritative account settlers, craftsmen and hired merce- chapters on the Vikings in Iceland, studies. Includes maps & illus- ship that transported Vikings to their of the Vikings. Includes maps, naries. 144 pages. Paperback. Greenland, France, Britain, and trations. 464 pages. bloody raids. Introduction by Magnus a chronology, an index and over $20.00 LIT 310 Russia. 416 pages. Paperback. Paperback. $18.00 LIT 319 Magnusson. 208 pages. Paperback. 150 illustrations. 298 pages. $34.95 LIT 312 $18.95 LIT 318 Paperback. $27.99 LIT 309 Eric the Red by Neil Grant Life on a Viking Ship Captured by Vikings • Escape from the Vikings Who Were the Vikings? Eric the Red’s quick temper was by Jane Shuter by Torill Thorstad Hauger by Jane Chisholm & Struan Reid always getting him into trouble; but Take a close look inside a Viking These novels tell the exciting story of two Irish children who Packed full of fun and facts about in time he became a fearless adven- ship and learn about Viking ship- are kidnapped by Vikings and brought to Norway as slaves of a everyday life in Viking times, this turer who founded the nation of building and sailing skills! Norwegian earl. Realistic and true to historical fact! Ages 12+. book answers basic questions about Greenland. Ages 5-9. Paperback. Ages 8-12. Paperback. Captured by Vikings LIT 250 Paperback. the Vikings. 32 pages. Ages 6+. $6.99 LIT 255 $7.99 LIT 291 Escape from the Vikings LIT 251 $12.95 each Paperback. $5.99 LIT 308 The Adventures of Simply Runes Norse Mythology Norse Myths The Far Traveler Thor the Thunder God by Kim Farnell A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, by Kevin Crossley-Holland Voyages of a Viking Woman by Lise Lunge-Larsen Each letter of the Runic alphabet Rituals and Beliefs Here are 32 classic myths that by Nancy Brown He is the biggest and mightiest of is presented in detail. Learn how by John Lindow bring the Viking world vividly to 500 years before Columbus, Gudrid the gods. If he tightens his belt he to read the ancient alphabet, and Explore the magical myths and leg- life. These tales of Odin, Thor, sailed off the edge of the known doubles his strength. If he swings how to make your own runes. ends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Freyja, and others, show the world. This book traces her foot- his hammer, lightning flashes. 144 pages. Paperback. Iceland, and Viking-Age Greenland courage and passion of the Norse steps and sheds light on an extraor- These stories are illustrated with $9.95 LIT 317 in these sparkling tales of gods and World. 276 pages. Paperback. dinary Viking woman and the high drama and written with humor heroes! 384 pages. Paperback. $17.95 LIT 127 society in which she lived. and skill. 80 pages.