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Line 6: The Överhogdal tapestries were found in the vestry of [[:sv:Överhogdals kyrka\|Överhogdal Church]] by Jonas Holm (1895-1986) in 1909. The tapestries were brought to [[Östersund]] by the artist Paul Jonze in 1910, and the County Governor’s wife [[:sv:Ellen Widén\|Ellen Widén]], who was a dominant figure within the regional heritage movement at the time, took charge.<ref name="Göransson">{{Cite journal \|last=Göransson \|first=Eva-Marie \|authorlink= \|title=Människor i Rum av Id: Bilder av Kvinnor och män på Överhogdal \|journal=Fornvännen \|volume=90 \|pages=129–138 \|publisher=Swedish National Heritage Board \|location= \|year=1995 \|url=http://fornvannen.se/pdf/1990talet/1995_129.pdf \|issn= \|id= \|accessdate=2010-05-03}}</ref> The first thing she did was to give the dirty linen a good wash in a bath tub in the cellar.<ref name="Göransson"/> ~~First believed to date from the [[Middle Ages]],~~ [[~~radiocarbon~~Radiocarbon dating]] tests conducted in 1991 ~~proved~~indicated that the tapestries were made between 800 and 1100 AD, the [[Viking Age]].<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Nordanskog \|first=Gunnar \|authorlink= \|title=Föreställd Hedendom: Tidigmedeltida Skandinaviska Kyrkportar i Forskning och Historia \|publisher=Nordic Academic Press \|year=2006 \|location=Lund \|pages=255 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8L4HqxAYhOUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false \|id= \|isbn=978-91-89116-85-6}}</ref> Newer tests in 2005 instead indicated a period between 1040 and 1170 AD.<ref>{{Cite news\|title=”Nya” rön om de gåtfulla vävarna\|trans-title="New" findings about the mysterious weavers\|date=22 January 2010\|language=Swedish\|work=Länstidningen Östersund\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128042119/http://ltz.se/nyheter/1.1742104}}</ref> ==Description and construction==

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