– With this inscription, the international community recognizes bun use and textile crafts in Norway as important living cultural heritage, which should be safeguarded for future generations, says Ellen Krageberg, director of Norway’s Housekeeping Association.
Officially, it is “Bunadbruk in Norway, traditional crafts and social practices” that is listed on Unesco’s list of living cultural heritage.
The work has been going on for seven years and has been a collaboration between Norges Husflidslag, Norges Ungdomslag, Norwegian Institute for Bunad and Folk Costume, Norwegian Folk Costume Forum and the Study Association for Culture and Tradition. They wrote the application on behalf of the Norwegian state.
It is the sixth Norwegian entry on UNESCO’s cultural heritage list. From before, Swedish-Norwegian seter culture, steve art, dance and folk music from Setesdal and the Nordic clink boat tradition are among other things.
Norway also has eight places listed on the somewhat more well-known World Heritage List, where, among others, Bryggen in Bergen, Urnes stave church and the Geirangerfjord are located.