![The industrial settlement of Ytre Arna in the 1880s](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh_110-1.jpg?itok=IUKv2baB)
The Urban Settlements
The development of urban settlements after 1850 is a historic process of great significance for the cultural landscape. Besides the great land reforms and the new ways of working in agriculture, the changes in the settlement pattern and the building of a road network with roads, bridges and cuttings were the single factors which have most significantly contributed to the metamorphosis of the county’s physical visage in the last 150 years.
![This artist’s reconstruction of a Viking woman standing at her loom](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh-124-1.jpg?itok=UjV7aM6N)
The Warp-Weighted Loom- A thousand year tradition in weaving
The art of spinning, the art of weaving and the art of dyeing wool is knowledge which has been an important resource in the natural household for several thousand years. And the art of weaving still fascinates new generations.
![Landet i vest – på randen av den skandinaviske halvøy. Fra Algrøyna i Fjell. (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/emmahh/008_2.jpg?itok=sU6YMZN0)
The West Country
Hordaland er en scene for naturens mange vekslinger – i topografi, berggrunn, vegetasjon og dyreliv, gjennom klimaperioder og årstider.
![Farm woman](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh_120.jpg?itok=b6tTeR6S)
The Women in Farmhouse Life
Kvinnene hadde ein sentral plass i det gamle bondesamfunnet. Fiskarbonden på kysten og langs fjordane var ofte ei kvinne, og i mangesysleriet på gardane var det full likestilling.
![Alfred Søvik from Lysefjorden](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/williamh/kvh_92-1_bu.jpg?itok=TMo1d2WC)
The Wooden Boat
Craftsmanship through two thousand years
![Primstav frå Tveit i Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh_132-1.jpg?itok=8Kl819cg)
The Wooden Calendar- Tradition and popular belief
The old Norwegian farmers’ calendar, the wooden calendar staff, follows the Norse system of reckoning time, and divides the year into a summer half, and a winter half.
![Glesvær](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh_glesvaer.jpg?itok=KrbUacrX)
![Fjordabåtane går ut frå Vågen laurdag ettermiddag](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh_76-1_farge.jpg?itok=WR3VYsMc)
![The well constructed two-storeyed house at Skjørsand in Fusa around the end of the 19th century](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/williamh/kvh_115-1.jpg?itok=9oZt9U1b)
Vernacular Architecture and the Landscape
![Kiste måla i 1834 av Bjørn Bjaalid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/williamh/kvh_129-5x.jpg?itok=FW3pOgtC)