Tomorrow is 17th May. Help! My bunad isn’t ready – it’s still in slightly too many pieces to make it wearable.
Well, I guess it will be done by tomorrow, it always is. (What?)
Which reminds me – I had to stop by and check out the 2003 collection at Despair, Inc.. It’s good, but my all time favourite remains this one from the classic collection:
Not that I feel it applies to me or to the situation re the bunad or anything.
This one is another good one:
If you live in the states, go buy stuff (sticky notes, for example) – the shipping over here would be just a tad too ridiculous to make it worthwhile, unfortunately. Just a tad, though.
Back to the bunad, One thing I still don’t have (apart from one that actually hangs together), is a suitable sølje*. With my bunad, which is the old Hedemarksbunad (1935 design), Husfliden (who owns the design) says little silver was worn, but that a heart-shaped sølje was usual, such as this one:
I’m considering a traditional, heart-shaped one. However, I am also considering getting a modern one, from Huldresølv, for example. They have several nice designs, and they are generally heat-shaped, which would be according to tradition. Something like the right hand one of these:
For tomorrow I guess I’ll stick to my old sølje, though. It’s the wrong “colour”, in a way, as the fittings on the bunad are either pewter or oxidised silver, kind of blackened, and the sølje is more towards white silver. But it’ll work, and a sølje is not something I want to buy in a hurry.
And what am I sitting in front of the computer for? I need to go sew!
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* Norwegian lesson of the day:
sølje, n. (f or m, depending on dialect), a piece of jewelry, usually silver (silver is sølv in Norwegian), in the form of a brooch, worn with national costumes. The søljes vary widely in design, some are specific to certain areas and are only worn with certain bunads, this one, for example, is meant for the Nordlandsbunad:
A good place to see more bunads and their accessories, is Husfliden.