Norsk Fjellbygdbunad
 This
is Eva, an aunt of a good friend of mine. She has a bunad (costume) called
Fjellbygd bunad. The belt on this picture is not original for this bunad. |
 
On the picture to the left you can see Marianne and her mother. On the one
to the right you also can see that the Fjellbygdbunad has even a
christening dress! Marianne (a bit younger :) on her christening day, with
her grandmother, Lillian Johnsen that composed the bunad. |
The story on the Fjelbygd-bunad
I have gotten the story of this bunad from the composers Lillemor Johnsen's grandchild, Marianne Rasch Johnsen.
The Fjellbygdbunad was composed by Lillemor Johnsen, and was registered October 18. 1973, and got the name "Norsk Fjellbygdbunad" Lillemor Johnsen moved from Bangsund til Skorovatn, from sort of a city-like area to the high mountains. The people living in her new neighbourhood was tied close together, and Lillemor Johnsen was a very shy person. She was very homesick.
She took long strolls in the mountains almost every day, collecting flowers. One day she found a "fjellvie" (a flower) and thought she would make herself a nice dress with these flowers embroidered on it. That never happened. She collected more flowers, dried them to conserve them. When the winter came, she started to draw her collected flowers.. One day she decided she would make a bunad with the most beautiful flowers on it. She used 2 years. Made patterns, throw them away, made new ones. The first bunad was embroidered by Svanhild Rian, and Oddrun Tyldum assembled it. It was Røros Husflidslag that did main drawings for the dress.
The first time Lillemor Johnsen used her bunad, she got lots of questions about it. That still happen, it is a very rare and beautiful bunad.
The silver for the bunad was made in cooperation with Frank
and Regina at Juhls Sølvsmie in Kautokeino in Finnmark.
Today it is Lise Thorsen, Mariannes cousin, that make the bunad
The woman/girls bunad is a whole dress, reticule, hat,
shirt (with no embrioderies) and a cape. The dress is made in either blue or
off-white. The stockings for the blue dress is red, for the white dress green,
as the linen in the cape and the ribbons on the hat. The flowers embroidered on
the dress are: reinrose, mogop and snøsildre, on the skirt, rypebær. (I dont
have any translation on these flowers).
The man/boys bunad has an off white jacket and blue trousers.
There is even made a christening bunad, it is offwhite. (See the picture).