A digital archive showcasing the extensive collection of jewellery and adornment images shared on the former Ethnic Jewels Ning site over the years. These images have significantly enriched discussions on cultural adornment and its global dispersion.
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For anyone who has seen the old American film I remember Mama, the solje figures into the plot rather significantly.
Love this brooch~Thank you for posting also a costume picture. I will post a picture of a brooch soon. I bought it 2 years ago in Germany, I don't know if it's German or Scandinavian.
How nice to see an ethnic jewel from Europe! Thanks for posting these!
It's really great, and important, to see European ethnic pieces, which happens too infrequently. Thank you so much for posting this, Annka. I have re-posted it, and commented on the importance of our paying attention to European ethnic jewellery, on Truus's and my "Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment" page on Facebook. I am very glad to show your piece to others there (close to 2300 now, potentially), and I am encouraging more posting of such material. "Ethnic" certainly does not mean "non-European". Any jewellery with distinctive ethnic features, i.e. forms and meanings peculiar to the region from which it comes, should be of great interest to us as collectors and admirers of ethnic jewellery and adornment.
I agree with the postings below, especially Edith.
The different regions in Norway has its own style of Bunad (the ethnic clothing), with its own capes, purses, hats, scarfs, and other accessories that goes only with that regions Bunad. The different Bunad has unique embroideries with a story behind it. In the area I live in, there are 3 different Bunad, which one you wear depends on where your family come from, sometimes as far back as 6-7 generations. The type of accessories (caps, belts and so on) you are allowed/expected to wear depends on other factors, like marital status, but are sometimes not the same indicators on different style Bunad. The Bunads of today are not that old, but the brooches can be traced all the way back to the Iron Age.