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Gratulerer med dagen, Norge!
This bunad is from Hardanger and belonged to Queen Maud, the first queen of independent Norway. She was inaugurated in 1906, 92 years after Norway created it's own constitution, which is what we celebrate on the 17th of May! The bunad was made by Anne Jerdal with silver jewelry created by Marius Hammer.
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bunad · 8 months
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Grandma's Wedding Crown
Oil on canvas, 1867, by Adolph Tidemand
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chiara-klara-claire · 4 months
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updated my article about Norwegian Bunads!
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trollkatt · 1 year
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Breast cloth for a Hardanger bunad.
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A Hardanger bunad (with a model in it).
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telemarcs · 10 months
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I'm looking at a Marilyn Monroe barbie doll that's kinda cheap but idk if i should get it, but i also fell into the rabbit hole of barbies and i wish i could make an in depth video analyzing the "Viking" barbie and the Norwegian barbie but I'm not a youtuber lmao
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themakeupbrush · 5 months
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Miss Universe Norway 2023 National Costume
A tribute to Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway, who has an interest in quality, sewing, reuse and craftsmanship. The Queen studied dressmaking and tailoring, and is known as 'Queen of reuse' - an honorary title given to her long before the circular economy became part of the Norwegian vernacular. This elaborate regal version of the Norwegian 'Bunad' features; the Norwegian national emblem depicting a golden lion, bearing a golden crown & axe representing the Kingdom; the iconic & traditional form of decorative Norwegian needlework hardangersom (Hardanger embroidery), made in modern techniques with up-cycled materials; And the Norwegian national tricolour of red, white & blue, three colours that denote freedom.
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ingasolja · 3 months
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Did someone say bunads? Bunads are so important and unique to Norway, I'd love to learn more about them. I hope to buy one for my 25th birthday too, but they're so expensive 😩 Some general bunad-related questions I'm curious about:
Besides 17. Mai, on what other occasions do Norwegians wear bunads? Your post about bunad suggestions for Sigurd said that you wore yours to Christmas. Which regions of Norway are more likely and less likely to wear bunads on other special occasions?
Are bunads that are historically authentic (those that never fell out of use or were reconstructed from detailed historical documents) seen as more valuable than "bunads" (festdrakter?) that are modern designs with a weak historical connection?
Men don't receive a bunad for their confirmation, so for the 20% of them who have one, when and how do they receive it?
And some questions that are related to Sigurd:
How does Sigurd choose which bunad to wear? Does he have a hometown and he always wears its bunad? If he doesn't, what does he think about the people who get upset at those who wear a bunad they have no connection to?
Is Sigurd opinionated about bunads? Is he a "bunad police" who thinks that a bunad must be made in Norway with traditional Norwegian materials and traditional sewing techniques, otherwise it's a knockoff?
I’m literally shaking with exciment right now, Thank you so much for all these questions😭😭 (doodle under all of this):
Yes! Bunads can be worn for many other occasions! Confirmations, baptisms, christmas, wedding, the gala, (funerals), and highly formal occasions✨ and yes, it kind of depends on the area. Some areas in Norway have a much strong connection to their folkclothing in comparison to other areas. Hardanger, Telemark, Setesdal are examples on areas that are quite connected to their folkclothing (heavy on Setesdal). So it’s more likely people from those places chose to wear their bunads more often instead of thise who are not from those areas. Also depends on personal preference.
Yes and no? It actually depends on who you ask. The average Norwegian would probably say no or don’t care, but if you ask a bunad expert/historian/maker they could give a different answer. I do kind of see bunads in cat. 1 and 2 more "important" than those in cat. 4 and 5. not because I don’t like them (god forbid, those bunads are very beautiful too), but simply because I’m more fond of older traditions and very "authentic" Norwegian culture (says I, who has a bunad from cat. 5 that I love so god damn much).
Actually, men do recive bunads for their confirmation😅 it’s just that most boys choose to ask for money instead. Parents usually ask their kids if they want a bunad as a gift, it’s just that’s it’s common for boys say no. I know 3 boys who wished for bunads for their confirmations. But yeah, it’s more common that men recive bunads later in life. It’s usually after their young adult years. It’s not that they really regret not getting a bunad, it’s more like "owning a bunad could be quite neat, actually" And they do like everyone else does; pay a shit ton of money and get it professionally made by bunad makers. Or some buy second hand or maybe they have someone in the family who already sew bunads. (I’m making a bunad for my brother when I become a bunad maker actually).
And for the Sigurd part:
Technically, Sigurd can wear any bunad he wants, after all, he does represent all of Norway. And I could leave it at that; Sigurd chooses a random bunad he just feels to wear that moment, but I think that’s boring. Sigurd wear bunads from the places he feels most at home, so yes, he does wear the bunad from the its area. I actually think he would feel awkward or think it’s wrong that he wears a bunad from an area he doesn’t view as home. Even if people would want him to wear their area’s bunad, he’d never really do that - for him it feels wrong. But on the other hand, I don’t think people in general would throw a fit about him wearing a bunad from a place he necessary don’t live in, I think they would be hounored that Norway himself wants to wear something that represent their area. Sigurd has multiple homes, those being: Telemark, Setesdal, and somewhere in western-Norway and in rural Trøndelag. He has three bunads who he usually switches between; East-Telemark Redshirtbunad (Øst-Telemark Raudtrøye bunad), the Setesdalsbunad and a modern East-Telemark bunad (Gråtrøye bunad). Another one he doesn’t mind wearing is Kvittrøyebunad from Hallingal. Norway has some sort of physical and emotional ties to these bunads and places (won’t go into detail rn).
Unpopular opinion, I do think Sigurd would be a bit like the "bunadpolice". He’s an old soul and he has been around and followed the bunads timeline, and he still does. He is not as strict as most bunadpolice people are. "You can’t wear that silver to that bunad!!! Damn you!!" He’s not that picky. But when it comes to certain things like how it’s made and how it’s worn, he doesn’t hesitate. He doesn’t like it when people choose the bunad they feel like, he wants them to choose the bunad from the place they grew up/born/their family’s area, etc. He truly belives that a bunad should represent you and/or your family, not something you have no connection too. Same goes for how a bunad is made. In his eyes, it has to be made with Norwegian values. Materials, knowledge, etc. he doesn’t care who makes ‘em, could be literally anyone, as long as it is made in Norway with Norwegian materials and skilled hands that have been taught by the real bunad makers. That’s what he views as a bunad. These views have been challenged before obviously. ‘Cause what if people with Norwegian heritage can’t go to Norway and simply learn how to make a bunad there? What if they want to reconnect by using the materials they have avilble? Will that be a knockoff, or can that be somewhat a bunad? Sigurd is still trying to figure out those means.
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vintage-norway · 7 months
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Bridal attire from Iveland, Agder (1853)
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Bridal attire from Vest, Agder
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Bridal attire from Åmli, Aust-Agder
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Bridal attire from Østerdalen, Hedmark
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Bridal attire from Voss
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Bunad attire from Hardanger
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Bridal attire from Søre Erkhovda
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Bridal crown, Nedre Hallingdal
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liliewriter · 1 year
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The Norwegian Bunad and Wedding Attire
You might have heard of the traditional folk costumes of Norway; the bunad. In case you aren't familiar, here are some examples;
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These are mostly worn for special occasions; constitution day, confirmations, anniversaries, christmas celebrations, graduation day, and of course - weddings, which is what this post will be about!
For Norwegian weddings, it's most common to see the bride wearing white and some guests wearing their bunad. There is however bunader that are designed for the bride to wear, which is the bunad I will be showing you today; brudebunad! (trans. bride bunad)
Keep in mind that bunader are very region-specific, and traditionally you wear the bunad of the place you grew up, or alternatively where one of your parents is from (there's also people who inherit their bunad from relatives; like me!). Some brudebunad consist of the regular bunad but with added jewellery and a crown; others have a specific brudebunad. Many are custom made or reconstructed from known older bunader.
Now, on to the brudebunad;
I'm starting us off with the bunad that my mom wore; Romsdalsbunad, from Møre og Romsdal. (that's her on her wedding day in the picture!)
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2. from Hallingdal, Buskerud
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3. from Hardanger (general)
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4. from Sørre Valdres
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5. from Voss, Vestland
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6. from Nordhordland, Vestland
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7. from Ålmli, Aust-Agder
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Hope this gave inspiration, whether it's for your Norwegian characters who are getting married or for a fantasy people who is inspired by Scandinavia!<3
If I got any of them very wrong, please let me know!
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magdasabs · 2 years
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no bunad expert myself, but different places and town or even counties have different bunads, so there are regional differences. most people only wear one they have some connection to, but they don’t have to be from that place themselves. i could wear the nordlandsbunad because my grandmother is from there, but I’ve never lived there myself. i would never wear a hardanger bunad, because i have no connection to that place (no matter how beautiful it is). some people are lucky to inherit them, because they are expensive af. there are other differences in details as well, but idk about those :)
thank you!
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vintagenorway · 4 years
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From traditional wedding in Ulvik, Hardanger in May 1954
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want-some-moriartea · 4 years
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Idk if any of my followers are interested but this is me in my bunad, the traditional outfit of Norway. This 17th of May was a lot quieter than usual, but I love wearing it so I dressed up regardless ❤️ Happy birthday Norway! 🇳🇴
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bunad · 1 year
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Bridal Procession in Hardanger
by Axel Lindal between 1880s and 1890s
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trollkatt · 2 years
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Traditional hairdos and headwear for women in Hallingdal, Voss and Hardanger
The head-cloth showed the status of the woman. It told whether she was unmarried, unmarried with child, married, divorced, “forgotten” or “left behind”, widowed... And, it was serious business. In some regions - I forget which - when a woman got married - an event that took several days - she transitioned through several statuses during the wedding alone, and wore several different head-cloths as the rituals and festivities progressed before she was no longer considered a bride but a kone - a married woman - proper.
The various words used for the regional cloths in this film are almost synonymous - they all mean cloth or a piece of cloth, and the specifics are understood or given from context or from how the word is combined with other words. The most known and used word for head-cloth nationally aside from the more general tørkle (which literally means a cloth to dry yourself on, like a bandana or a kerchief - but not a towel) is skaut (which literally means protuberant or "something which sticks out", which very few people know, since it commonly is nearly exlusively used for head-cloth).
In this film, aside from skaut, we see several other words used:
klut (lit. piece of cloth; cloth; nappy; rag)
lin (lit. cloth made from linen; specifics are indicated by combinding it with other words, e.g. hodelin, brudelin, bordlin, sengelin = linnen for the head, the bride, the table and the bed respectively)
duk (lit. finely woven cloth; covering; sail cloth; table cloth; in combination with other words it can mean various kinds of towels, etc.)
But in this film they all mean head-cloth of some kind.
My translations - which are as direct as I could make them - are possibly in some cases and to some degree incorrect, since the words 1) are in dialects I am not all that familiar with coming from a completely different part of the country, 2) are used for things that don't exist in my region, and 3) haven't been commonly used in about 150 years even where they originated.
Outsiders often think of Norway - or even the whole of Scandinavia - as pretty homogenous culture- and language-wise, but truth is, every region in Norway has its very own customs and traditions, and its very own words for them. Sometimes these can differ completely even from village to village or farm to farm. That's how isolated some places could be. People saw each other so rarely that they developed their own distinct vocabularies.
Enough talk. The film is made by folklorist Klara Semb some time in the middle of the 1930s.
Ca. 0:12 Håruppsetjing og skautpåbinding = The putting up of hair [lit. "hair-up-putting" - that is, the styling of hair] and binding on of head-cloths [lit. “head-cloth-on-binding]
Ca. 0:15 Hallingdal
Ca. 0:20 Hovudklut = "head-cloth". The oldest known hairdo for unmarried women, last used by confirmants during communion in Ål church in 1870. [Ca 1:00 Yes she uses spit.]
Ca. 1:48 Pannelin og skuve = this phrase indicates the flattened ponpon in the front (lit. forehead-linnen) and the tassel at the back of the head (can't even guess at the etymology). Hairdo for unmarried women in upper Hall. [See how she too uses spit.]
Ca. 2:32 Hette = "cap". Hairdo for married women on upper Hall. Ca. 3:16 Hårlag = "hair-layers". Hairdo for bride. Was also used by confirmants.
Ca. 3:56 Voss (where the bottled water comes from)
Ca. 3:59 Skauting = "the action of putting on - or being clad in - the head-cloth". The cloth vølast = is cared for (approx. in the meaning of maintained or prepared), in this case put on a valk = in this case the specific board used to keep the shape of the cloth. The bride is being "plaited and head-cloth-clad" with svartenastduk = "black-stitch-cloth" [a bit unsure whether I got the "nast" part right, it seems to exist outside of this particular dialect only in this one word for this particular head cloth which is found only in this one village...]. Then she becomes nyekona = "new-wife".
Ca. 6:08 Bound up hair with svarteborda = "black-bands". Hairdo for unmarried women. Was used until ca. 1875. [Yes, those are extentions.]
Ca. 8:27 Festivity costume for young girls
Ca. 8:40 Festivity costume with svartenastduk for high festivity. Ca. 8:50 Church costume for married women with kvitenastduk = "white-stitch-cloth".
Ca. 9:00 Hardanger
Ca. 9:03 Skautefelling = “head-cloth-folding”
Ca. 10:33 Skauting = see above. The bride is "head-cloth-clad" with a fedlaskaut = "folded-head-cloth". Then she becomes "new-wife".
If any halling or vossing or harding reading this knows the more exact translations of the dialect words, please do respond!
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Klara Semb the filmmaker at 16 years old, dressed in a traditional dress from Østerdalen.
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telemarcs · 1 year
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Okaaaay Eurovision review!! 
A little disclaimer: I do not mean to be negative to anyone, i really admire these people for doing what they love and on this big stage, and i wish them all the best! I also don’t know the meaning behind the songs, so i really don’t mean to be disrespectful. I’m watching a random playlist on youtube rn so i’m watching the music videos as well, at least for most of the songs. This will be chaotic just so you’re warned, it’s 3 am so you can’t really expect anything else.
Albania: Oh no he didn’t pick up the phone ... why does it sound like they sing “Afterski Tirol yeah” I’m like positively surprised hmm.
Norway: Mah countryyyy, i love this beginning so much and idk why. Why do everyone shoot their video in a boring storage unit when we have the most beautiful nature outside?? Love this laidaidaidaai part. My issue with this is i love that we with Keiino and Rybak brought traditional, and with Tix we spread awareness, and with Subwoolfer we were probably on something while being obsessed with masked singer, and this just feels like “But we didn’t win (i mean Rybak did) so now we gotta send something that’s a little bit like what everyone else sends”. My music taste is not even close to the current music charts so i feel like that’s a factor, however i love the girl power and bi awareness as i’m bi myself haha literally. I do love a lot of this tho, like in a other setting i think i would be all for it ... it’s just in esc i want us to be either bunad and Hardanger fele or us being batshit crazy. I want us to be loved by the people, and not the jury, sadly the jury has too much power and it’s often more about pleasing them. What is that outfit??? I thought she was naked for a second ... also a thing, i think we could slay if we have a great staging and outfit as well, but not this ... *Jon Ola Sand voice* Take it awæææi. Is that a slyyy fiddle in the back??? Some mountains nice, ohhh the whistle note, gosh now i’m gonna worry about her hitting that. I really didn’t understand the meaning of this video??? Also i don’t wanna hear no Oslo 2024, let us bring it back to Bergen if so.
Estonia: It’s pretty but it’s so boring i started thinking about what Pippi Longstocking is called in Estonian, and what that means in Norwegian jshfjdsh
Cyprus: That leather jacket mixed with a red shirt gives me Zayn Malik vibes ohhhmygod. Drive in movie?? I wanna go to one of those. ANYWAY i feel like this can be cool on stage for some reason, like there is some potential???
Spain: Dune vibes. It’s not a good sign when i’m checking how much is left of the video ...
Poland: Some of those shots give me “the movie detective’s dead wife in a home video” vibes. Solo is a Norwegian soda btw that i’m drinking while reviewing it, very famous during easter ... uhm it’s so tik tok ish, not my thing. 
Armenia: Guuurl those lyrics is a mood. 
Iceland: I’m not a fan of those screaming parts, in any song that is. 
Italy: Italian will always be such a pretty language, song wise yeah it’s pretty but i want something up tempo por favoreeeee
Belgium: Sorry but this is the type of song i hear in H&M that makes me wanna leave because the music, people, the heat in malls, it all gets too much. 
Georgia: I see the chorus be in a fantasy movie/book edit. Not my thing but the way the song is built is very interesting if that makes sense???
Slovenia: When will Ziga Jelar join esc i ask for the 38975 year in a row, he can join them tbh. Uhm i can work with this?? There’s potential, and they’re probably fun guys. 
Finland: Okay i think i actually like this now, but when it gets to the “Cha” part i only hear “Jump” and that makes me think of the disney movie called “jump in” for some reason ahaha. The part around 1.45 i haven’t heard before but it’s giving me karamell dansen vibes, it’s cute. 
*Miss universe or world or whatever* fRAANCE: Aesthetic wise i like this, music wise ... no. It’s not bad it’s just not me.
Croatia: I .... i uhm øøø idk where to begin *maniac laugh* i’m SPEECHLESS that was *gestures wildly* i mean i’m already singing it so go tractors! I’m just reeeeeally curious how my parents are gonna react for some reasons???
* Break time *
It’s 4 am, might push through some more but idk if i’ll watch everyone today, Croatia scared me. 
* Let’s continue *
Germany: I hate glitter, it gets everywhere and it will outlive us all and be found by archeologists. I like this, however i feel like the song sounds 2006 ish if that makes any sense? That it’s a song that would do good then, now too just not on the same level?? But what do i know?
And yeah that’s part 1, i am tired so good night! 
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rontra · 4 years
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the picture turned out more elaborate than usual, so i didn’t write the variants on the image this time. but if anyone’s curious to know more about the art i just posted, here’s some stuff about it...
obviously, i made both of them accent with primarily red, since that’s kind of their thing. this isn’t really a big deal
cinder
this time, cinder is wearing a pretty regular hardanger.
i decided to limit the palette a bit and remove the green accents...also, a lot of the time, the pant legs will have little tassels, too. but i decided against it.
the men’s bunad shape is really straight up and down, which i really like. but the side effect is that it looks really big on them...(lol)
oh, and their eyepatch....i didn’t look up anything for it, so it’s not related to the hardanger costume at all. it’s kind of generically a rosemaling-esque shape to stay in line with the norwegian aesthetic.... :p
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salem
for salem, i chose the winter variant of the hardanger (kvam) bunad...i thought the full sleeves would suit her! it’s a kind of more austere look that i really enjoyed drawing.
this is a little bit niche, but i suppose it’s a neat cultural context... please pay attention to these:
-medallion with chain on the chest -plain belt with silver plates -attached piece to the belt, also with jewelry
all of these details are very expensive traditionally associated with/worn by married women. (obviously, nowadays, things are a bit more lax, and married/unmarried women both do as they please, haha) i thought that would be a neat addition, to distinguish her from a hypothetical younger party ..... but i didn’t end up drawing anybody else wearing the skirt version, so.... well, in any case, i think it’s a neat touch, since she was a wife & mom, haha
the medallion with the chain is the Agnus Dei, traditionally given to the bride as a betrothal gift, to protect her and her prospective children from harm. although the one i drew is based on this agnus dei, i didn’t draw any design on it, but you’re free to imagine any lore-friendly sacrilege you want, i suppose ;)
oh, and she’s wearing a knife, which....i mean...i imagined cinder is too, but it’s out of view. the little knife is actually a recognized part of the traditional dress as well, for both men and women. the more you know!
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