Great speech! I wish all European countries would treasure their national costumes like this

As a Scotsman I can identify with this with our kilts, I do love to wear a kilt ☺

This was very interesting. I am a French living in Norway and I am fascinated by the beauty of the bunad. I had the foolish idea this morning to learn and make a bunad myself. And what a better way to start documenting and studying the bunad and its history than listening to a TedTalk? Thank you for sharing this knowledge. 🙏

@Asdfghjkl-us5jr

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck, and enjoy the garment 😍

@pezlover1974

2 ай бұрын

It’s been three years. I hope you have one by now

My bunad is my great grandmother’s! 🥰 I love this talk!

The bunad is part of very old regional traditions. "Bridal Procession on the Hardangerfjord" was painted in 1848, showing a well developed bunad tradition both for men and women. My own family have both lace and parts of bunads and the silver-work that is more than 170 years old. The earliest of local bunad dress may have been in the 1400's. Embroidered border-strips, like on some of the bunads today, reaches back to the viking age. The bunad has had a long journey with developing techniques and regional influences. County and regional styles were very stable during the 1800's. Most books showing regional styles show styles from that period.

That was a beautiful talk. As an English person I've always regretted not havering a national costume and always thought that national dress was steeped in the mist of time. Thank you for proving me wrong

@hildegerdhaugen7864

3 күн бұрын

England have no traditional folk costume tradition?

Flott ❤️👏 love from Tyskland

A traditional costume always develops, logical when you consider that fabrics are sometimes no longer available, just differently due to weaving or pattern. Small details, grow into striking details. Traditional costumes that are rigid and leave no room for development at all, Nor do they give room to allow people to develop along with their current contemporary life. The chance that the same taste is exactly the same 100 years ago is an illusion. Even iconic paintings are shifting in taste or are admired for other details a century later. At most you can agree on a basis, but the pattern, the color, how the pleats are laid, still determine the seamstress with her skills. And yes, there is someone in a region who can embroider very beautiful birds, there is a good chance that she can embroider many birds on a bunda. While in another region someone sews the pleat in slightly differently and the skirt turns slightly differently as a result. You can never stop such details nationally. This making Process from mother to daughter of a regional seamstress who helps a village get a costume. And uses her expertise that it is feasible for a village. When the costume police do that, they crush the creativity from which the costume draws its power. And Yes I wear my regional costume every day, but I also see the difference when I make details on a sewing machine or by hand. A lady from the Netherlands. Herma

Locally a new bunad design actually was made, one representing my town, it didn't exist when I was young so it's a new one as well, so people seem to still carry on the creation of new ones.

@hildegerdhaugen7864

3 күн бұрын

This is so cool!

dude, this is cool

Not Norwegian but I want to wear a bunad

@Constantin9va

3 жыл бұрын

I’m a Norwegian and I say you should do it! Like the speaker says, Bunad is open for interpretation.

@drasiella

3 жыл бұрын

@@Constantin9va Thank you for the approval 🥰

@chubbybunny6975

3 жыл бұрын

@@Constantin9va You have no idea how happy that makes me, tusen takk! I'm Canadian, and pretty certain I have some Scandinavian decent along my family tree, I still wanna do a proper DNA test and see, and I've always been fascinated by Scandinavian cultures, languages, and traditions. Every new thing I learn about Norway, the more I love it and the more I feel connected to it. I desperately wanna visit someday, Norge er vakkert

@Constantin9va

2 жыл бұрын

@@chubbybunny6975 I think if you feel a connection to the culture, that is cool! You should embrace that! Norwegians like to think of themselves as very inclusive (wether we truly are or not is open to debate) so come join the bunad party!!! I don’t know who would be against that. And if you are a Norwegian and you feel differently, I’d love to know why.

@mortenwellhaven

2 жыл бұрын

It is an honor when others from far away want to wear any Norwegian bunad - out of affection or pride for a people. It is like wearing a kilt of a clan that you are not a member of, but you like the pattern and you want to honor that clan. It is the same thing. I once visited Son's of Norway, Bjørnson Lodge in Oakland California. There I saw a wife of a Norwegian who wore a bunad. She was Chinese. Nobody cared. My cousin has a Telemark bunad. She is not from Telemark. She was born "next door." Wear any bunad you like with joy and pride!

Jeg elsker norge. ❤🇸🇯

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