The History of the Bunad - Traditional Norwegian Folkwear and How it's Worn Today!

[@71Siddy]

For a foreigner living in Norway, this was very informative and fun to watch. This must have been a lot of work to make, I loved it!

[@fabelknitwear2773]

So glad to hear you liked it! Forgot to address that you don't have to be Norwegian to get a bunad/festdrakt/fantasibunad if you want one!

[@kathyrusch2393]

4 generations ago my mothers family came from Norway to Wisconsin in the US near the Mississippi River. My mom loves geneology so she has researched what bunad both sides of her great parents would wear and sent her kids (including me) tiny dolls wearing them. Love this. Will share it with her. Thank you!

[@fabelknitwear2773]

How interesting, thats such a lovely gift (the dolls)!!

[@deborahkocourek5119]

I have a photo from the 1880s of my great grandmother in her bunad. And husfledien Bergen has been so kindly to help me select all the proper materials. So the past year I have been making my own . It does bring me great pride,even though I am all the way in America

[@Tuvza]

Jeg sydde min egen rogalandsbunad, og er veldig fornøyd med at jeg gjorde det, for jeg er veldig stolt! Er fortsatt litt sjalu på de som har arvet gamle, da jeg føler det er noe magisk med det.

[@ashenwalls3558]

This is absolutely fascinating!

[@laravagenius9161]

Thank you so much for compiling this information. It was so interesting and so helpful as I try to find more connection to my Norwegian Heritage. I live in a town in the US with the largest Syttende Mai festival outside of Norway and I’m so excited to make a Bunad and have occasion to wear it every year! Now with your help I have so many more resources. Again, thank you so much. ❤

[@homeiswonderland]

Wow, the silver of your bunad is incredible. Love the whitework on the shirt's shoulders.

[@olive5890]

Superb episode! I really appreciate all the preparation and research that I'm sure went into it, bravo!! 👏

[@finch_026]

The story I'm writing is somewhat based on Norway (or at least the region it takes place in) so I'm really interested in this, thanks for this recourse :)

[@PaperTiger]

I really enjoyed this, Helene! I'm slightly impressed you made a whole video on bunads and the Nordland bunad didn't even get a mention (unless I missed it), since it's so popular, but there are of course so many different bunads! And perhaps it's my own bias, after living two years in Tromsø where you see a lot of them, and it's one of the more common bunads at the Seattle syttende mai parade as well. I love the tradition of bunads but I've definitely become more interested in other festdrakt and more recently the fantasistakker (I love Eva Lie's pieces!). I think since I'm not Norwegian myself, I would lean in the direction of the more creative festdrakter out there, and the idea of making one for myself is certainly appealing. I'm totally with you on getting creative with drakter nowadays - the rigid traditions that exist today grew out of the diversity of folk clothing to begin with, so variation has always been a huge part of the cycle, you know? Love your Nordmøre bunad too, and I really enjoyed hearing more about it! I have a friend who also has the one from Nordmøre (with one of the red bodices) and she has a tattoo on her forearm in bright colors of the embroidery on the purse, I love it.

[@fabelknitwear2773]

Yeees the Nordlandsbunad would fit right into the "one-colored embroidered" category - I LOVE the green Nordlandsbunad! 🤩 We definitely have bias to the ones we're used to, I myself notice and point out other Nordmørsbunads on 17mai even though I have one 😂 Yes I just adore the fantasibunad and want to make myself one someday, it definitely furthers the tradition and I really like that! Ooh that sounds like such a good tattoo!

[@saraq3017]

I love that norwegians, even the young people, still wear these beautiful clothes! In finland it is very uncommon to wear folk clothing. Though the dresses are not as beautiful as yours there are still some pretty ones too and I would like for them to become more common. Thank you for the interesting video

[@QuietestKris]

this was so helpful for my presentation on the Bunad! I am looking to imigrate to Norway and learn all that I can

[@irenebrand3588]

Thank you for a very informative podcast. I had to share this on my Facebook page. My daughter is taking her exam for the title of Bunadstvirker. Being kept in suspense until Thursday 13.01.2022. She already has Svennebrev in Kjole og Drakt. Her speciality is Rogaland bunader.

[@x1435]

What an interesting tradition! It seems like a fun reason for everyone to get dressed up, no matter their daily lives. I don't have any tradition like that. But I certainly understand the insurance! The whole video I was thinking about coffee, wine, and food stains 😳

[@fabelknitwear2773]

So much fun! 😊 Haha yes, luckily foodstains are easy to remove just by handwashing! The shirt you can throw in the machine luckily!

[@littlemonkeysandme3171]

How very interesting and how beautiful they are!! I live in the US, but was in Chile and we have some traditional clothing and dances that we are very proud of! So, to me, this was very different, but very similar in a way! 😍😍

[@fabelknitwear2773]

How fun to hear!!

[@annluckmann]

This was very interesting. I love learning about the history and traditions of folk costumes. I can't imagine what a rabbit hole this would have been to start researching all the different versions. I have some Ukrainian heritage and I plan to make a vyshyvanka (вишивки) from the region that either my grandma or grandpa came from. I agree with you that having garments with sentimental value to them is very special.

[@fabelknitwear2773]

Ooh how exciting, they look gorgeous! So much embroidery 🤩

[@annluckmann]

@@fabelknitwear2773 yes, it will take a long time to make, but it will be worth it.

[@hrachouhi87]

Loooooved this video! Please do more fashion history videos 💕💕

[@fabelknitwear2773]

So glad you liked it!

[@DustBunnyHerder]

My norwegian ancestor left there in the 1850s, and I've no idea which county he came from. So I'm really happy to hear that we don't have to be specific if we want a bunad. Even better are the folkesdragt and fantasydragt.

[@sydneydavis7874]

Loved this video! I have been searching for information on how to store the bunad and shirt and it seems you just hang yours in a garment bag? I bought mine on a trip to Norway a few months ago at Husfliden Glasmagasinet in Oslo. Since we were just passing through for the day, I was only able to purchase what they had available instead of custom made and went for the Rondastakk style. Do you have any information on that? Is it considered true bunad? I was happy to find something, but will probably pass down to a daughter someday and would love to get something from my family’s region in Vest Adger (I believe they were from Kristiansand). Thanks for the great video!

[@4gma59]

LOVE your bunad.

[@NancyMKerr]

This was a wonderfully informative video, thank you for creating and sharing this! I can't wait to get sewing. Do you have any recommendations for how to find specific area bunads? As an American who doesn't read Norwegian well, I've been trying to figure out if there is anything more specific than the Nordlandsbunad for where my family was from, but there seem to be fewer specific official regional bunads in the north than in the south, is that true?

[@niklasvilhelm7247]

The northern counties are way larger than the southern ones so yes, the southern bunads have more variations

[@YuliaLinderoth]

This was so fun to watch, I've been wanting to learn more about Bunads so this was a perfect train-watching-video. Sweden doesn't have as strong of a tradition with regional clothing as Norway has, which is a bummer I believe. (It's the same with dialects, especially in Skåne where I and part of my family is from, being Danish back in the day. (Sweden burned all the church books f.e and erased a lot of scanian history)) It's very uncommon to wear Folkdräkt in Sweden today, and I believe there's some conceptions that wearing folkdräkt is a sign of you being a bit of a nationalist (politically)... With Skåne historically being a rich part of the country there's well documented and registered regional Folkdräkter (44 in total), which also have more silver connected to them than other regions might have. The patterns and symbols used for the silver dates back to pre-christian times. I've worn a child version of my regional folkdräkt for a theatre, my grandmother has worn the same style for festive reasons or particular folkdräkt events. It's called "Norra Åsbo", and is most characterized by it's bright red woolen skirt edged with black velvet triangles. It's similar to most Bunads, in that you wear a white shirt, an apron and a vest with it. "Striglakors" are from what I've learned a very scanian piece of silver wear, and very much showed your status back in the day.

[@fabelknitwear2773]

That was very interesting to learn!! I truly believe that having been occupied for so long is the reason the folkwear-trend really kicked off here in comparison to our Scandinavian neighbours who did not have the need to shout their national identity to the world, so to speak!

[@YuliaLinderoth]

@@fabelknitwear2773 Yes that's probably a very big reason! I read that Folkdräkt in Sweden stopped being "The" outfit you had to wear in 1850, and that also coincide with swedes emigrating to the us, so a lot of clothes probably left the country as well.

[@HiNinqi]

Hi! What are the names of the towns for 36:51, 37:01, long sleeve from 37:42, 37:51? Thank you so much for making this excellent video!

[@fabelknitwear2773]

Hi! I don't get any photos up at that point, but right before 36.51 I get the Beltestakk from Telemark! Is that the one? At 37.07 is the Trønderbunad from Trøndelag, and the longsleeved one at 37.42 is the Vinterbunad from Hardanger! In other words the winter version - they have both a standard bunad and a winterbunad in Hardanger. The white embroidered one is Lundeby, and at 37.56 is the Tranum Røer bunad.

[@Francine___]

Such a great video! I will soon be living for at least one year in Norway and in order to be educated I started watching a lot of videos about Norway, the landscape and the culture. My question would be: would it be wrong for me to wear a bunat or a drakkt as a foreigner or would it be okay? You look beautiful by the way ❤️

[@soneahelne]

Hi! I at least have no problems with that! Of course everyone should get to join in and celebrate 😊 I mean they are quite expensive, so I (and everyone I know) think anyone who wants to buy one should be able to! Or if you want to make a fantasidrakt. Most Norwegians love it when foreigners get to experience may 17th!!

[@Francine___]

@@soneahelne thank you so much for your answer! Of course i would probably more likely buy a fantasidrakt, but happy to know, that it would not be a bad thing if i wanted to join and celebrate ☺️

[@susanmccarten5075]

Wonderful, I love them all, it looks so good on you, so beautiful! But it’s too bad you only wear it once a year, such a beautiful tradition that would be lost if the young let it go, we should always respect , the past, and honour it in the future.

[@fabelknitwear2773]

May 17th is always a highlight simply for getting to wear our bunads!

[@dorcaswalker1867]

Shame the audio quality ist good

[@fabelknitwear2773]

It was my first time using a new microphone and it definitely needs to have its settings adjusted!

[@raeafoley6131]

I did enjoy the video but the sound quality was really bad and difficult to hear you at times.

[@fabelknitwear2773]

It was my first time using my new microphone and it definitely needs to have its settings adjusted!