Every design for Älvdalen

Have you heard the melodic Elfdalian, the local tongue still alive here by the Österdalälven? Älvdalen is the main town of Älvdalen municipality and the church village of the parish, a district where the language and the landscape are inseparable.

There is something about the red porphyry that lodges in the memory — mention the Porfyrmuseet and people will nod in recognition. Take a walk past the old Kyrkhärbret, stop at Rots skans or let your eye rest on Gåstjärnen early in the morning, and you understand why anyone who grew up here always longs to come back.

A shirt with the map of Älvdalen keeps that feeling close: the coordinates of a place entirely its own, and of everyone who counts it as home.