Folk dresses and some Finnish summer traditions

There is still some work to do with my folk costume but I have already worn it a lot. There are a lot of events for people that want to go out and enjoy traditional dresses during the summer and I also took my dress for my parents' summer cottage. So join with me to enjoy the summer 2022 once more.
About the music and the dance: Besides the few Scandinavian pieces at the beginning, the rest of the music is Finnish folk music. The folk musician Mika Klemetti generously send me a few traditional folk pieces he has played with his accordion. At Seurasaari the dancers danced to the songs Savisenlammen menuetti (composed by Jari Komulainen) and Katrilli Kyyjärveltä that is by the folk music group Rälläkkä (You can listen to their album on Spotify). All the music is used with permission. The choreographer for the dances is Riina Hosio and the dance group is called Kärri. I thank for all these people that allowed me to use their music and dance for this project.
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[@adamakaru2683]

Beautiful I love the vibe in the culture thank you Katja.

[@mirandahinton3250]

I look forward to the bobbin lace! Beautiful video!

[@FinnoUgric]

Beautiful video. I love to see peoples in love with their Culture, Traditions and History. Greetings goes out from Hungary.

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you! I love Hungarian traditional dresses and embroidery as well!

[@cherylinchrist4826]

It would be nice to have a pattern for lace hat. I would love to make it. The blouse is so pretty worth such big sleeves.

[@withmyhandsdream]

The lace is fastened to a piece of linen that is about 25 cm long. Google ”tykkipitsi” to see pictures of the shape. I’m currently working on a bobbin lace that’s going to replace the machine made and cheap lace that you could see in the video. I will then talk about the lace cap a bit more! If you want to make the silk cap, it is possible to purchase pattern for this or numerous other ones through shops that sell patterns and materials for Finnish folk costumes.

[@jackiejames4551]

All the folk costumes are so beautiful.

[@withmyhandsdream]

They are! Too bad that they are not in fashion. It’d be so cool if you could see folk dresses more often and around the world. Where ever you go, everyone mostly wears the same clothes.

[@maijalenna]

What jewellery would you wear with your costume?

[@withmyhandsdream]

Check out my silversmithing video!

[@SaramLex]

Thank you so much for the very informative and interesting video, Katja. Only one question about ancient and medieval Finland clothes. Was there a difference between the clothes of married and unmarried girls, married and unmarried men? Like Eura dress and analog for the man (it's a pity but I don't remember the man's dress name)

[@withmyhandsdream]

I am not sure about medieval times. But I believe that married women wore veils and girls did not. The habit continued all the way to mid 19th century in Karelia. During the 18th and 19th century, married women covered their head with different kinds of caps. The girls tied a silk ribbon around their head. I don’t think there was such a difference between men’s and boy’s outfits. Generallt men and boys dressed the same, although men could have more expensive hats, belts and knives. We don’t know much about men’s dress what comes to ancient Finland. There is no Eura dress or any officially reconstructed iron age dress for men. This is because we don’t have preserved archeological evidense to base men’s dress to. We have lots of archeological finds for women because women wore lots of bronze jewellery that is poisonous to bacteria and thus protected women’s garments from decay. For men, we have some buckles, swords and small items but not enough to really reconstruct an outfit. It is believed that a Finnish men dresses similarly to Scandinavian men during that era: simple wool tunics with perhaps linen or nettle undertunics, some kind of trousers, legwraps and leather shoes. Wool capes were also worn.

[@SaramLex]

@@withmyhandsdream Thank you so much, Katja. Yeah, I met mentions of the fact that women's clothes are well preserved due to the large number of bronze jewelry. And the history of the Aino-puku Folk Dress is very interesting too. I know that this is the reconstruction based on a lot of archeological finds. And looks like it's possible. Pekka Halonen's painting "Against the Enemy" looks interesting too. The warriors have spears and axes. The only thing that confuses is the lack of shoes from the first warrior. But I think this is the artistic vision of the artist. The second warrior seems to have leather shoes on his feet. The hats are very interesting. But they probably don't have any protective properties. I saw similar headdresses in later paintings.

[@withmyhandsdream]

You have a bit out-dated info it seems. Aino-dress is the first ”muinaispuku” and at that time there was so little knowledge that nowadays it is considered to be pure fantasy. It also isn’t really a folk dress as the Finnish folk dresses are generally based on clothes people wore in the 18th and 19th centuries. Mervi Pasanen and Maikki Karisto have a wonderful book on the Finnish iron age dress: ”Löydöstä muinaispuvuksi”. I am not sure if it has already been translated into English but you should find it very interesting.

[@SaramLex]

Thank you for this perfect explanation. And special thanks for the information about a wonderful book. P.S. I'm learning Finnish on Duolingo :) And history of Estonia, Finland my own Mari and other Finno-Ugric nations is really interesting for me.

[@withmyhandsdream]

You are welcome! You probably have seen them already but just in case you didn’t notice them, I have a whole series of videos on Finnish iron age costume.

[@cherylinchrist4826]

Is cornstarch similar to potato starch?

[@withmyhandsdream]

I don’t know. They are pretty similar. Rice starch should also work or those starches that people historically used to starch collars and cuffs.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

Loved this video. I visited Finland over 20 years ago and it’s such a beautiful country. Have always wanted to go back. Loved the diversity of folks costumes - you can tell folks put lots of work into crafting their outfits.

[@Goddessღ]

I want to visit some day. Where did you visit?

[@linr8260]

Welcome to the bobbin lace club :D That cottage and lake look like such a wonderful place... Soothing.

[@withmyhandsdream]

Thank you! The bobbin lace is completely different from anything I’ve sone before. Now I’ve learned my lace pattern by heart and can make lace much faster!

[@avaa7651]

7:43 As a Finnish-American in a nordic dancing group I would love to go to an event like this! One of my favorite things to do is see all the traditional dresses people have.

[@turpasauna]

Kiitos, kaunis video. 😊

[@hildegerdhaugen7864]

nydelig bunad.

[@Janttura]

Might you have any pictures/closeups of Tervola's folk dress or would you know anyone that might have? I've found out those pics are hard to find from world wide web 🙃

[@withmyhandsdream]

Here are some: kansallispuvussa.com/tervola/

[@katrussell6819]

Lovely. Can you show us some period jewelry?

[@withmyhandsdream]

Check out my silversmithing video!

[@lisesieniski555]

Beautifull