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Photo exhibitions and new releases.

The poster for the exhibition “Folk Costume Close Up” with Sami costumes from Kautokeino.

A large photo exhibition is opening at Borås Museum on March 24th. “Folk Costume Close Up” has moved from Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo to Borås in Sweden and will be on show all summer. The Borås Museum, situated in the beautiful surroundings of Ramnaparken, has fifteen buildings from the region. The older ones are from the 17th century.

One of the local girls is modeling the folk costume from the parish of Toarp, in the region of Borås. She is dressed for a formal occasion with a printed wool skirt, an exclusive apron and the little hat, trindmössa.

At the exhibition opening I will talk about the journeys I have made and about the people I have met. The many similarities in material and techniques used in the making of folk costumes and bunads are a great source of inspiration to me.

Håkan Liby, Swedens Curator of National Antiquity and Chief Curator at Upplandsmuseet, will hold a lecture on “Folkdräkter i nya skepnader”, the new shapes of folk costumes. A lecture about the new use and presentation of the Nordic folk costumes and bunads.

The book Scandinavian Folklore Vol I is being released by Cappelen Damm, Norway’s largest publisher, in a Norwegian version. The title is “Drakt og Prakt” and can be ordered from Norwegian bookshops starting at the end of March. This edition contains no English text.

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1 Comment, Make a Comment by Laila on March 17, 2013

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New book! Bunader from Setesdal.

Almost as a new-year-gift we have been given the commission to make a large new coffe-table-book to the Setesdalen Museum in Norway. Since my visit last autumn we have had discussions and now it has been decided that I will make the book. The book will show all the different garments and accessories from one of the few areas in Norway that has an unbroken folk costume tradition. Handy craft, farming, beautiful old houses and people, from babies to their great grand parents, will show the costumes and how they are worn on church going and working days.

The text in the book will be written by Curator Randi Gåserud Myrum and her colleagues, and will contain norwegian text with english translations.

The wool embroidery on the Setesdal bunad is very popular and there will be lots of photos really close up for those who would like to try and copy these works of art.

The book will be released in the autumn of 2013, just in time for all bunad enthusiasts who would like to buy themselves a lovely Christmas present.

Read more about the new books in our production at www.duranpublishing.com

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2 Comments, Make a Comment by Laila on January 21, 2013

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Traditional Christmas Fair at Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo

The Christmas fair at Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo is a tradition that has been going on for many years. Thousands of people visits Bygdöy on the week-ends to buy Christmas presents and see the old farmhouses decorated in the old fashioned way. This year winter arrived in Oslo without all the snow that covered the rest of Scandinavia but the temperature did go below – 15°C.

Fram houses from all around Norway is open to the public.

This house is from Valdres. The table is set and the candles are lit.

Christmas trees was decorated differently in many parts of the country. Here red apples, candles and little paper wraps are used.

Butter was a luxury, and it was often beautifully decorated and placed as the centerpiece. On Christmas the children would get little lumps of butter to eat as treats.

Inside the house from Hardanger the guide is dressed in Hardangerbunad with the white headkerchief worn by married women. The logs behind her are decorated with chalk drawings.

Outside, a corn sheaf is hung by every house of the out door museum.

Twice every Saturday and Sunday before Christmas you can hear musicians and see the children´s dance group. In spite of the could weather the key fiddler is playing.