Folkdräkt norrland
Dräktnyckel är en digital informationsdatabas med målsättning att bli en identifierings- och informationsnyckel till landets folk- och bygdedräkter. Sidans vidareutveckling bygger på att ni som har information och kunskap om en eller flera dräkter laddar upp och delar med er av ert material. And besides, they look amazing! Oxiedräkt , on our 3rd grade graduation:. The most recent wave of popularity has been going on since the green wave of the s — when the general population started to embrace more traditional ways of making clothes — and even more so when Queen Silvia of Sweden wore one on the national day celebrations in The national dress may be the most famous traditional Swedish costume, but it is still a fairly recent one compared to the regional folk costumes.
Sverigedräkten was designed in the early s and based on the traditional folkdräkt folk costume that was not only common, but almost pretty much mandatory among the general population in the s more on that further down the article. The national dress and general movement toward going back to more traditional clothing was seen as an alternative to the modern industrial wave of fashion that blew through Europe at the time.
The movement behind the dress, Svenska Kvinnliga Nationaldräktsföreningen The Swedish Female National Dress Association , wanted to break the ongoing trend of expensive textiles, artificially shaped clothing, uncomfortable corsets, and hard-to-wash dresses that reached all the way down to the floor. The dress was also made to bring the women of Sweden and Norway the two countries were in a union at the time closer together — no matter their specific geographical heritage and regionally unique folkdräkt that they would previously wear.
The designer of the dress, Märta Jörgenssen born Palme , worked as a gardener in for the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria of Baden, who decreed that all the workers on her estate were to wear a folkdräkt more specifically Tullgarnsdräkten , see below while working. The Crown Princess preferred to wear Ölandsdräkten see further down the article herself, and wearing a folkdräkt started to become more and more fashionable among the Swedish social elite who at the time were riding a major romantic nationalism wave much like the rest of Europe.
Märta saw the practical advantages of the dress in her daily work, and as manors and castles around Sweden started bringing back the traditional folk costume, she felt that it was only natural to make a dress that all of the country could wear together. This is when she founded Nationaldräktsföreningen the National Dress Association , and started working on a traditional dress for all Swedish and Norwegian women to wear.
It was made in two main models: a festive model, and an everyday model see below. The Swedish traditional dress we still use today is more aligned with the festive model to the right. Skirt: fabric in thin wool. In the blue colour of the turn-of-the-century Swedish flag.
Folkdräkter
The turn-of-the-century flag was sewn from wool and in the muted colours permitted by the dyeing techniques of the time. Bodice: the same fabric in blue or in bright red, with embroidery that should include the green colour.
For the lacing narrow silk ribbons in red or green are used, for the red bodice always green ribbons and red lacing only in cases where red apron edging or red stockings are present in the costume. The belt : of the same material as the skirt and fastened with a silver or brass buckle or similar clasp. The apron : of the same material but yellow the yellow colour of the flag with a border, embroidered in accordance with the embroidery on the bodice, of highly stylised floral motifs.
The border is sewn on red or blue. The apron is tied with home-woven ribbons of yellow, blue and green. Shoes : preferably slippers or lace-up shoes, black. The shoes should not attract attention. There are about different types of regionally unique folkdräkter traditional folk costumes from all over Sweden, of which around are female costumes, and around male costumes. This was originally how the Swedish general population or more specifically the peasants when Sweden was primarily a farming society as a whole dressed in everyday life around the s to the s.
Which of course stands in contrast to today, when they are mainly worn on special occasions and holidays — such as Midsummer, the Swedish national day, or school graduations. Traditional Swedish folk costumes folkdräkt are unique to each Swedish region landskap , and most of the time even to smaller sub-regions or villages. They were mainly designed around the 18th century as either work attire or festive attire, but some new creations have popped up during the last few decades as there has been a bit of a folk costume renaissance in Sweden lately.
As an example, I grew up in Oxie a neighborhood of Malmö which has some inhabitants, and despite being located within the 3rd biggest city in Sweden Malmö , it still has its own folk costume called Oxiedräkten. Here are some examples of the Oxie folk costumes Oxiedräkt my elementary school teacher wore for every graduation throughout grades We can compare the design of the folk costumes my teacher wore above, to an older example from the s below — which shows how the design has changed slightly, but mostly been kept the same over the years:.
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Traditional Swedish Clothing: The National & Regional Folk Costumes of Sweden
A post shared by Elna runfridrcostumes. Both the Sverigedräkt and folkdräkt can be commonly seen during the summer season, especially during festive events such as graduations, national day celebrations, weddings, or midsummer parties all over Sweden. As an example, my elementary school teacher wore one every graduation, and the royal family wears one every national day. For fans of the movie Midsommar , you might have noticed the many traditional Swedish folk costumes that were used throughout the movie.
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