(I'm a norwegian, as in I'm born here, was raised here and still live here, so keep that in mind, Norwegians tend to have opinions on this) A "festdrakt" or "fantasistakk" is quite different from what is thought of as a bunad today. There's even a registry of all the folkdresses (for men and women) that are considered bunads in Norway. Sweden also have a folkdress tradition but it isn't as strong as in Norway. In Norway most women (and many men) own or have a bunad available to them. You can't just walk into a shop and get one of the rack (you can get some festdrakter straight of the rack, but they are primarily for children). If you don't want to sew it yourself or have anyone in your circle (a mom, grandmother, aunt, father, grandfather...) who makes them you'll order one from specialised businesses like husfliden (a chain of stores with mainly traditional crafts), a smaller store, a sewist/tailor or other businesses who make bunads. Most businesses still make their bunads in Norway, some send them out, but I can't think of anyone who won't take proper measurements or let the person who is buying a bunad make some adjustments. The tradition of wearing bunads is ever-changing and influenced by the fashion at the time it's made. Yes, they are now fairly streamlined compared to what clothing actually used to look like, but that also makes sense. People are not wearing their bunad everyday, they won't have more than one skirt (stakk), vest (liv) and shirt. The people who wore the clothes that the different bunads are based on would have more than one of each and I don't think people would just have clothes all made in one colour. The bunad is also a constructed concept. They aren't perfect copies of what people wore and I presume most people who have one knows that. Festdrakter and fantasistakker has become immensely more popular in the last couple of years. Bunads is extremely expensive and making your own festdrakt from textiles you've bought at a thrift store or charity shop is much cheaper. And it's really cool that people are doing that now, it's pretty much what people did when making their own clothes in the 17 and 1800's in Norway. So I love the trend where people do their own thing and make garments they feel great in, but it probably would be frowned upon to use the wrong terminology when describing a festdrakt as a bunad. Hope this made sense and was informative 🙂
You have no idea how long I have been looking for a video like this one 😭😭😭 You are a LIFESAVER for me! I live in a VERY Norwegian town in Wisconsin where everyone who is anyone has their bunad from the region their family is from and they all come out for Syttende Mai
My mom had the "Oslo" bunad. A light steel blue wool with embroidered flowers around the skirt. Very pretty. Alas, it is too small for me to wear, so now it belongs to my niece.
This was a really interesting video. My ancestors came to New Zealand from England, Scotland and Ireland, so my "national dress" would be from those countries. Some of my ancestors from 1000 years ago, or more, came to England from France. However, the "national dress" of New Zealand would be the clothing the Māori people wore before the arrival of Europeans - skirts made from our native flax (which is nothing like the European flax) that was left to dry into tubes, with the tops worked so the fibre showed and that fibre was woven to create the waist band that held the skirt up. Cloaks were made from the fibre too, and also from dog skin (there are no native animals other than two species of bats with a very limited range) or from bird skins (we had some VERY large birds here once upon a time).
My 19 year-old niece was adopted from Kharkiv Ukraine (we’re in America) and I’ve been looking at Ukrainian folk dress to learn more. I’d love to make her something that’s a nod to her culture. Thanks for the inspiration. (I’m saving lots of folk dresses to a Pinterest board. All the European folk dresses are beautiful.)
There were certainly a lot more variation than what we see today, back in the day I highly doubt that someone from a particular village would want to wear the same as those from the village across the river or lake. Many places in Norway have a long history of neighbour rivalery, to such a degree that as late as the early 2000s a fight was certain to happen if people from 2 different places close to where I grew up ended up at the same party
Arne and Carlos have a wonderful series on Norwegian folk costumes from Sedestal where Arne's family is from. It is so specific region to region, I love seeing all the different styles. I would like to try and make a lice sweater.
BUNAD!!!!! Yeah! I love these dresses. Some are very elaborate. My great grandfather was from Sweden. I love comparing the various dirndls and the Scandinavian bunad. Thanks for this! I love doing "folkbounding" in my everyday dress, so I'd better not see the folk police! :D
@@chalseaweathersby2206 Yes, I know that the bunad is local to Norway, but the style of this kind of peasant costume, varies so much, even in Norway, but has the same feeling to it in the Swedish costumes, too.
If anyone sees this comment please add more bunad video links below! English or subtitles preferred but I'm happy to push myself to learn some new languages to get into it more! Until today I thought the Bunad was very close to the Dirndl. A friend of mine showed me one from his hometown and it looks more like a blend of that, western styles, and Korean hanboks even. Soooo cool!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I'm always nerding out over stuff like this, and I really enjoyed being able to share more focus on the historical inspiration and other creators here too.
@@DaisyViktoria What I forgot to mention, the back of the jacket ( I think, could be the dress) is the same shape as a Sarafan dress. I find it interesting this overlap of clothing between all the regions
I’m super new in learning about my Scandinavian and German/Prussian ancestry! I’m really excited for you to share this! My DNA results included Norway, Sweden, and … I’ll have to look! Haha
Thank you for making this video and sharing the history of Bunads with us! This video came up when I was researching for a custom Spirit Elsa doll I want to customise with a magic element to it and your research with images has given me a more trustworthy source to give my doll a more authentic result when I finish her🥰 I was worried I couldn't design Elsa a magic and cultural dress with her other worldly touch but you have shared how much diversity and creative flare there actually is with Bunads which has given me some wonderful concepts to explore now💕
I once went to Norway and saw a lot of similarities between Eastern and Western tribal designs and motifs - especially if you look at central Asia, China as well as places like Borneo. I believe that at one point in the history of Human civilization, all these cultures converged from one point in the distant past.
Have you thought of doing a Viking costume? The bunad style used around the capitol city of Oslo . . do you know what it is?" Which area is your family from?
I have been researching the regional folk dress of Poland as my dad's side of the family comes from Poland. But also I have ancestral Scandinavian roots so I am wanting to incorporate both elements into my own folk dress
I notice that the Swedish, Norwegian and Swiss emigrated to and through the same places/areas. The Swiss also have a similar traditional regional dress. I have both Swiss and Swedish (as well as Netherlands, German, French, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English) in my ancestry. I would like to make some traditional dress some day.
Hey there! The swiss folk dresses are similar for some cantons (counties) but some are *very* diffrent. They are similar in the history though. They used to be standard farmers clothing, then people forgot about them and at the beginning of the 20th century people rememberd and recreated the old styles. Only very few of them were worn continously and are therefore still true to the "originals". We also have a Trachten-Polizei (Folk-dress police) 😂😅 I would say the german dirndl (which is the way we tend to think of german folk dress) only really is the folk dress of the region bavaria (Bayern). But the dirndl really comes close to the Bunad of Telemark from the looks of it. All in all, they are similar but so diffrent at the same time 😊
We have around 450 of them from all over the country, i.e. the different counties/regions etc + a whole range of different *festdrakter* which is a much cheaper and more affordable option. So if you *Google Norwegian Bunader and Festdrakter,* you will see a lot of them pop up, a whole lot! 😉😅👍
(I'm a norwegian, as in I'm born here, was raised here and still live here, so keep that in mind, Norwegians tend to have opinions on this)
A "festdrakt" or "fantasistakk" is quite different from what is thought of as a bunad today. There's even a registry of all the folkdresses (for men and women) that are considered bunads in Norway. Sweden also have a folkdress tradition but it isn't as strong as in Norway. In Norway most women (and many men) own or have a bunad available to them. You can't just walk into a shop and get one of the rack (you can get some festdrakter straight of the rack, but they are primarily for children). If you don't want to sew it yourself or have anyone in your circle (a mom, grandmother, aunt, father, grandfather...) who makes them you'll order one from specialised businesses like husfliden (a chain of stores with mainly traditional crafts), a smaller store, a sewist/tailor or other businesses who make bunads. Most businesses still make their bunads in Norway, some send them out, but I can't think of anyone who won't take proper measurements or let the person who is buying a bunad make some adjustments. The tradition of wearing bunads is ever-changing and influenced by the fashion at the time it's made.
Yes, they are now fairly streamlined compared to what clothing actually used to look like, but that also makes sense. People are not wearing their bunad everyday, they won't have more than one skirt (stakk), vest (liv) and shirt. The people who wore the clothes that the different bunads are based on would have more than one of each and I don't think people would just have clothes all made in one colour. The bunad is also a constructed concept. They aren't perfect copies of what people wore and I presume most people who have one knows that.
Festdrakter and fantasistakker has become immensely more popular in the last couple of years. Bunads is extremely expensive and making your own festdrakt from textiles you've bought at a thrift store or charity shop is much cheaper. And it's really cool that people are doing that now, it's pretty much what people did when making their own clothes in the 17 and 1800's in Norway. So I love the trend where people do their own thing and make garments they feel great in, but it probably would be frowned upon to use the wrong terminology when describing a festdrakt as a bunad.
Hope this made sense and was informative 🙂
You have no idea how long I have been looking for a video like this one 😭😭😭 You are a LIFESAVER for me! I live in a VERY Norwegian town in Wisconsin where everyone who is anyone has their bunad from the region their family is from and they all come out for Syttende Mai
Pretty sure I'm in the same Wisconsin town!
@@rebekahverbeten2958 You definitely are 🤣🤣
@@ameliarhinerson9352 Haha, if you've been there YOU KNOW - I'm from Denmark, but have visited. Absolutely hilarious, so much Uff Da!
@@Larananne 🤣🤣 Exactly!
It is my pleasure to save your life! 😂 That's really cool, it sounds like quite a day there!
My great grandparents were from Telemark region. I am in love with the embroidery of the cuffs, collars and shirts.
That's so cool! The embroidery is absolutely masterful!
Omg the collars are Amazing
My mom had the "Oslo" bunad. A light steel blue wool with embroidered flowers around the skirt. Very pretty. Alas, it is too small for me to wear, so now it belongs to my niece.
This was a really interesting video. My ancestors came to New Zealand from England, Scotland and Ireland, so my "national dress" would be from those countries. Some of my ancestors from 1000 years ago, or more, came to England from France. However, the "national dress" of New Zealand would be the clothing the Māori people wore before the arrival of Europeans - skirts made from our native flax (which is nothing like the European flax) that was left to dry into tubes, with the tops worked so the fibre showed and that fibre was woven to create the waist band that held the skirt up. Cloaks were made from the fibre too, and also from dog skin (there are no native animals other than two species of bats with a very limited range) or from bird skins (we had some VERY large birds here once upon a time).
My 19 year-old niece was adopted from Kharkiv Ukraine (we’re in America) and I’ve been looking at Ukrainian folk dress to learn more. I’d love to make her something that’s a nod to her culture. Thanks for the inspiration. (I’m saving lots of folk dresses to a Pinterest board. All the European folk dresses are beautiful.)
There were certainly a lot more variation than what we see today, back in the day I highly doubt that someone from a particular village would want to wear the same as those from the village across the river or lake. Many places in Norway have a long history of neighbour rivalery, to such a degree that as late as the early 2000s a fight was certain to happen if people from 2 different places close to where I grew up ended up at the same party
Arne and Carlos have a wonderful series on Norwegian folk costumes from Sedestal where Arne's family is from. It is so specific region to region, I love seeing all the different styles. I would like to try and make a lice sweater.
I loved watching them make their bunad and the problems they had. And how they worked them out.
Ooh I will definitely have to check them out! That sounds fantastic!
@@DaisyViktoria you may want to watch the series they did last summer about sedestal. They did in depth interviews with crafts people there.
BUNAD!!!!! Yeah! I love these dresses. Some are very elaborate. My great grandfather was from Sweden. I love comparing the various dirndls and the Scandinavian bunad. Thanks for this! I love doing "folkbounding" in my everyday dress, so I'd better not see the folk police! :D
The bunad is founded in norway, not all of Scandinavia 😅 or Sweden
@@chalseaweathersby2206 Yes, I know that the bunad is local to Norway, but the style of this kind of peasant costume, varies so much, even in Norway, but has the same feeling to it in the Swedish costumes, too.
If anyone sees this comment please add more bunad video links below! English or subtitles preferred but I'm happy to push myself to learn some new languages to get into it more!
Until today I thought the Bunad was very close to the Dirndl. A friend of mine showed me one from his hometown and it looks more like a blend of that, western styles, and Korean hanboks even. Soooo cool!!
This deep dive was fantastic.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I'm always nerding out over stuff like this, and I really enjoyed being able to share more focus on the historical inspiration and other creators here too.
@@DaisyViktoria What I forgot to mention, the back of the jacket ( I think, could be the dress) is the same shape as a Sarafan dress. I find it interesting this overlap of clothing between all the regions
I’m super new in learning about my Scandinavian and German/Prussian ancestry!
I’m really excited for you to share this!
My DNA results included Norway, Sweden, and … I’ll have to look! Haha
Thank you for making this video and sharing the history of Bunads with us! This video came up when I was researching for a custom Spirit Elsa doll I want to customise with a magic element to it and your research with images has given me a more trustworthy source to give my doll a more authentic result when I finish her🥰 I was worried I couldn't design Elsa a magic and cultural dress with her other worldly touch but you have shared how much diversity and creative flare there actually is with Bunads which has given me some wonderful concepts to explore now💕
thank you for this delightful video!! i love bunad!
I'm so glad you liked it! Bunad is so beautiful!
@@DaisyViktoria especially bunad you make!
I once went to Norway and saw a lot of similarities between Eastern and Western tribal designs and motifs - especially if you look at central Asia, China as well as places like Borneo. I believe that at one point in the history of Human civilization, all these cultures converged from one point in the distant past.
Have you thought of doing a Viking costume? The bunad style used around the capitol city of Oslo . . do you know what it is?" Which area is your family from?
That was fascinating!
I have been researching the regional folk dress of Poland as my dad's side of the family comes from Poland. But also I have ancestral Scandinavian roots so I am wanting to incorporate both elements into my own folk dress
I notice that the Swedish, Norwegian and Swiss emigrated to and through the same places/areas. The Swiss also have a similar traditional regional dress. I have both Swiss and Swedish (as well as Netherlands, German, French, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English) in my ancestry. I would like to make some traditional dress some day.
Hey there! The swiss folk dresses are similar for some cantons (counties) but some are *very* diffrent. They are similar in the history though. They used to be standard farmers clothing, then people forgot about them and at the beginning of the 20th century people rememberd and recreated the old styles. Only very few of them were worn continously and are therefore still true to the "originals".
We also have a Trachten-Polizei (Folk-dress police) 😂😅
I would say the german dirndl (which is the way we tend to think of german folk dress) only really is the folk dress of the region bavaria (Bayern). But the dirndl really comes close to the Bunad of Telemark from the looks of it.
All in all, they are similar but so diffrent at the same time 😊
I like to see the original Bunad
We have around 450 of them from all over the country, i.e. the different counties/regions etc + a whole range of different *festdrakter* which is a much cheaper and more affordable option. So if you *Google Norwegian Bunader and Festdrakter,* you will see a lot of them pop up, a whole lot! 😉😅👍
A there’s hundreds, but some of the most famous ones are Hardangerbunad, Beltestakk, Raudtrøyebunad, Nordlandsbunad