Womans bunad from Lofoten'
(click on the pictures to get larger images)
 On
May 17th 2004 i met Linda and Laila, in their beautiful Lofotenbunad. Laila
is Lindas mother, and, she has made both bunads!
Thank you for letting med take your pictures, ladies!!
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 This
is Cecilie on her confirmation day in May 2001. She lives in Øvre Årdal,
in Sogn and Fjordane, but her mother is from Unstad, Vestvågøy, Lofoten.
Thank you to Kari, Cecilies aunt, for sending me the picture |
I met Sonja on May 17. and she let me take a picture of her in her
beautiful Lofoten bunad. |
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The
bunad from Lofoten has beautiful embroideries.
Photo: Laila Normann Christiansen, 2001 |
The womans bunad from Lofoten
A teacher named Arnolda Dahl started to research this bunad in 1940 and created it in collaboration with the Bunadnemnda [Bunad
Committee] in Hol, completing the work in 1948. The design of the skirt is based on studies of shifts which were recorded in the estates of women who had died during the period 1734-1739. This source material was lent by the National Archives in Norway. Old
photographs were also used as background material. The floral embroidery at the bottom of the skirt was designed by Edvarda Lie, a painter living on the Lofoten Islands. She took her inspiration for this embroidery from the flowers native to the islands. The Lofoten bunad is made in only one colour. Apart from the shirt, all the garments are made in dark blue woollen material. The shirt is in
white linen (which should not be too fine in texture) with white-work embroidery on the neck and
wristbands.
More about the Lofoten-bunad (in Norwegian, but with a beautiful picture)