Gudbrandsdalen Festbunad
 Gro has her Gudbrandsdals festbunad
on, she made it herself! Picture was taken in a wedding in Copenhagen in
2003. |
 Here
you can see the back of Gros beautiful bunad. |
 This
is Gro in front of the rectory, the oldest part of the house was built in
the 1700! It is on Vålerenga in Oslo. Gro has her Gudbrandsdals festbunad
on.
My camera had a black/white moment, but I decided to use the picture after all. You can see the colous of the embroideries on the picture below. |
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on the picture to get it bigger! This is Gro and Wenche in their
Gudbrandsdalen Festbunad, and their sister Tove in a Graffer bunad. Gro is
a good friend, and she introduced me to her sisters on May 17. 2003. We
had a really good time! |
Trine looks really good in her Gudbrandsdalen Festbunad. The bunad has
beautiful embroideries on the skirt. |
The background on this page is the Sølje for this bunad
The Gudbrandsdalen Festbunad
Hulda Garborg, the painter Aksel Waldemar Johannessen and his wife Anna created this beautiful bunad. Aksel Waldemar found an old blue skirt with embroideries at the Folkemuseum. The story about this skirt was, that it was made for a young girl, 17 years old, from Lom. She was to be married to an older man around 60. It has to be very wealthy people, as they made three skirts before they were satisfied!
The bunad is now made in blue or black, and is available in two versions:
with or without skattered flower embroideries. The one without embroidery is to
be worn with an apron. The apron is either in silk or wool with floral embroidery. The silk apron is black, while the woollen apron is the same colour as the skirt. The original bunads always had silk aprons, but this material became harder to obtain
during and after the war, which led to the use of woollen fabric as well. A pullover, in the same material as the bunad, is used as outerwear.
Before WWII it was made in different colors, today only in blue or black. It is also possible to get it in the original colors, green bodice, blue skirt and black embroidery on skirt and apron.