#Kalevala Koru

[torillatavataan]

Se on Lapponian Planetaariset laaksot (tai Galaktiset huiput, joka on tosi samanlainen). Nykyään niitä valmistaa Kalevala koru.

Koru on tuttu Tähtien sodasta. :)

sivistäkää minnuu pliis, miks kaikilla naisilla (eli ainakin kuudella??) on ollut sama kaulakoru?? Sellanen hopeisia, vähän muotoiltuja neliöitä??

On varmaan joku suomalaisen suunnittelijan mutta niinku miks tänä vuonna

[valejalkainen]

selasin kalevala-korun vanhojen mallien luetteloa (kuten aina välillä teen) ja saatte nyt katsoa joitain mun suosikkejani hehheh

rakastan kupurasolkia. niiden muotokielessä on jotain todella tyydyttävää. kupera silmu joka on täynnä pieniä käkkäröitä? mä piirrän samanlaisia kun roikun puhelimessa. just like me frfr

krapu ja kampela!!! kravun omistan ja se on mun suosikkisolkeni kaulusten ja huivien sulkemiseen. niin pieni mutta niin suuri ystävä. löytäisinpä kampelankin.

suurin osa mun suosikeistani pohjautuu vanhoihin korulöytöihin, mutta tästä jäkälästä en ole ihan varma. mutta se esittää jäkälää ja jäkälät ja sammalet on ystäviä. ja tän muotoilu on tosi yksinkertainen ja tyypillisen korun muotoinen, mutta silti siitä näkee jäkälän ominaismuodon

oikeat valejalkainen.tumblr.com-lukijat tietävät että uhtuan sotka on mun lempikäätyni koskaan. niin massiivinen ja äänekäs mut silti kaunis, niin sulavalinjainen mut silti niin Tekstuurinen™. veisin uhtuan sotkan vihille jos voisin. kaunis kaunis morsiameni

tää on sarpanevan suunnittelema ja sen näkee kauas, mutta tässä sarpanevalle tyypillinen piikikkyys on yllättävän hallittua ja symmetristä. ja noi laitojen aukot saa tän näyttämään jonkinlaiselta päre-entiltä. tää tulee metsässä vastaan ja vie mut metsänpeittoon enkä palaa sieltä enää ikinä

joka kerta kun katson kuvaa tästä näen eri asioita. kameleontin, disko-alienin, jonkin sortin pöllön, sen käärmeen viidakkokirjasta?? ehkä se on niitä kaikkia

😳 pillu

[pomegranatecountry]

Finnish iron age (AD 500 - 1300) dress

Iron brooches, shoes and knife: Rautaportti

Necklace and earrings: Kalevala Koru

Cross necklace: Kimmo Tulimetsä

Ring: Takomo Alkutuli

Lucet: VytuVatu (Etsy)

Rosary cross: FenrirS (Etsy)

Veil pin (not even visible): Elävä keskiaika ry

Sock garters (also not visible): an old lady in the local Karelian association

Everything else by me

Pictures by my friend who doesn't use social media

[annashaberdashery]

Kalevala Koru Tintti bird pendants on my shop on Etsy!

[thatcharmingjerk]

I had a dream i was at a mall and there was blind woman begging for money but she would also accept old makeup and jewelry to use in her art???? I guess???? She smelled all eyeshadows she got

Anyways someone dumped her a necklace in kalevala koru case and i looked at it and was like aww cute buT THEN I NOTICED IT WAS SPINOSAURUS!!!!!!! LITTLE SILVER SPINO WITH A SMALL JEWEL!!!!!!! AND I HAD TO HAVE IT so i planned on to steal something from the mall to trade with her!!! I planned to steal some bras because why not!!!!! Bras are expensive right!!!!!!!

Anyways I - i be having some wack dreams huh!!!!

[maisalampinen]

KALEVALA KORU x ILDAR WAFIN 'MÄNNYT' | STYLIST'S ASSISTANT

Client: Kalevala

Creative Director: Aino Ahlnäs

Art Direction: Mia Haajasalmi-Blomqvist

Marketing and BTS: Elena Palomo

Art Direction and Style: Anne Törnroos

Stylist's Assistant: Maisa Lampinen

Photography: Juho Huttunen

Gaffer/Tech: Mikko Sinervo

Video: Tuomas Nurmi

1st AC: Janina Witkowski

Models: Britta Lund/Nisch Management, Olli Heinimäki/The Sisterhood

[ruttotohtori]

Kalevala Koru Hannunvaakuna https://www.pusurinpuoti.com/tuotteet.html?id=49215/1063395

Tiätääks kukaan paljoo Kalevala-koruista tai osaa käyttää Googlee mua paremmin? Mun isä osti nää ja muita koruja kirpparilta halvalla ja ne on kai Kalevalaa. Osaaks kukaan sanoo että mitkä korvikset nää on?

[amatesura]

Kalevala jewelry, 1990

[designobjectory]

Mid Century XL Pottery Mobile by Maija Liisa Vasenius for Kalevala Koru, Finland 1960s

[son-of-alderaan]

Finnish jewellery maker Kalevala Koru has announced plans to shut down its internationally-known brand Lapponia, according to daily Helsingin Sanomat.

Lapponia, which has been operational since the 1960s, is one of Finland's best-known jewellery brands and acquired by Kalevala Koru in 2005. The firm was originally started by entrepreneur Pekka Anttila and designer Björn Weckström.

However, as part of a corporate renewal strategy, the Lapponia brand will be laid to rest. Kalevala Koru's CEO Kirsi Paakkari confirmed Lapponia's retirement to HS.

She said one reason behind the decision is that the company was unable to keep several individual brands viable. Instead, the firm plans to market its jewellery line-up along three separate design types, with each of them branded under the Kalevala name.

Lapponia likely made its biggest impact around the world in 1977 when the brand's Planetoid Valleys necklace and Darina's Bracelet were worn by Princess Leia (played by actor Carrie Fisher) in the space fantasy blockbuster movie Star Wars.

The company said the iconic necklace would continue to be manufactured in the future, but under the Kalevala Koru brand.

[talvenhenki]

I'll add to this! The Finnish National Museum has a page where you can see the museum's collections online and I assume you can also read about the historical artefacts!

As for music, I personally like the folk music band Värttinä, they have nice folk-ish melodies sung in Finnish, sometimes in dialects as well. And of course, there is everyone's favourite spin leek song, Ievan Polkka by Loituma!

And if you are going to learn about Finland, you should read up on the Sámi people, the original indigenous peoples of Finland. In Finland, three of the Sámi languages (Northern, Inari, and Skolt) are being spoken and every group has their distinctive cultures, I think. Sadly, I know very little about the Sámi but I'll always jump on the chance to read more about them. Another group of linguistic minorities is the Karelians! You should read up about them as well.

For art, you should check out the designs by Iittala, Arabia, and Pentik, all of which are known and loved in here. And for everyday things, Fiskars makes scissors and other sort of spiky things :---D And, of course, Kalevala koru uses ancient jewellery findings in their design to bring out the Finnish history and prehistory

On the internet and social media, there are pages called Finnish nightmares and veryfinnishproblems that bring out our silly culture with a humorous twist, you should definitely follow them!

And lastly, a warning. As the extreme right is on the rise, you should always take anything you find online with a grain of salt. Finns were never Vikings, and we became literate quite late. There are many ancient findings of clothes and and jewellery but we simply don't know much of the times before literacy and Christianity spread. There are studies and books on ancient Finnish religions, as well as the folk religions we still sometimes joke about, some of them done by people I know, but most of them are still in Finnish. Hopefully soon these works could be translated into English because frankly some of our folk figures could be well liked outside of Finland!

Hi! This is a bit random, but I’m always really interested by your Finnish posts, and was wondering if you have any recommendations for learning more about your country?

Any stories/bits of art or music that are particularly special?

No need to answer this if it’s intrusive or anything, of course!

Hello! Let me see... This post gets quite long, so I'll put my recommendations under a readmore! To be honest, most of them are just random Finnish stuff, not necessarily specifically oriented to teach anything about Finland, but it's something.

Any other Finns can reblog and add stuff if you've got better recommendations than I have, btw!

Music-wise I suppose it depends on what kind of music you like - if you're into metal music, there's a lot of Finnish metal bands and I think some of them even sing in Finnish, but it's not a genre I personally listen to a lot. What I myself listen to is frankly a mess that doesn't make any sense, but here's a couple relatively well-known Finnish songs that I personally occasionally listen to (the method of choosing was random "whatever comes to mind first"):

Autiotalo by Dingo

Rakkaus on lumivalkoinen by Yö

As for stories - I have to admit I read shamefully little Finnish literature. One thing that comes to mind, however, is Maria Turtschaninoff's Red Abbey Chronicles fantasy series! I heard of them from a friend and read them some years back, and personally I really liked them. I don't know that they'll tell you particularly much about Finland as a country, but I like them as books. And Moomins, of course - I haven't read the books since I was a child, and I've never seen the entirety of the 90s anime adaptation because we didn't have a tv when I was a kid, but they're lovely stories, and if they don't tell you about Finland as a country as such, they're still a big part of Finnish culture.

I suppose I could also point you towards some classics of Finnish literature (Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi, The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna, that sort of thing) but I also don't read a lot of classics, and I try to keep to a rule of never recommend books I haven't read and/or don't like personally, so I can't actually recommend them as such, all I can state is that they are classics of Finnish literature that exist and are set in Finland (of the two I mentioned, Seven Brothers is set in the 19th century in rural Finland, it's fairly comedic in tone, and generally held to be the first novel actually written in Finnish, while The Unknown Soldier follows a machine gun company throughout the Continuation War; so in terms of that, expect a number of violent deaths and all of that) and I'm relatively certain there are English translations of them (though whether those are easily available anywhere, that I cannot say)

Speaking of classics, there's Kalevala. You should be able to find one or two different English translations of it in Project Gutenberg. Now, with Kalevala there's a whole can of worms regarding cultural appropriation of Karelian culture and stories that I do not understand thoroughly enough to explain it properly, but I don't think there's any argument that it shaped the Finnish culture and national identity when that was still in the process of being created in the 19th century.

As for artwork, I don't have a lot of specific ones in mind, but you could take a look at the Finnish National Gallery's website and see what stuff there speaks to you!

You can also search for specific artist's works on the website, so here's for example pictures of the works of Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Hugo Simberg, Albert Edelfelt, and Eero Järnefelt, to name a few of our famous painters (note: i haven't refined those searches beyond selecting for a given artist, which means the search result includes a lot of sketches and stuff, but if you like, you can further refine the search to only show you paintings, for example).

Personally, I quite like the bunch of Hugo Simberg's paintings that portray Death (as in death as a character, pretty much the black-robed skeleton type). The most famous of those, I think, is this one, the Garden of Death:

[nocticola]

My baby is back

[lehdenlaulu]

 - Kuka haluaa olla kaikkein kaunein, kun voi olla kesyttämätön? / Who wants to be the most beautiful when you can be untameable?

A beautiful new commercial for a Finnish jewelry brand, celebrating the female diversity. 

(The song is the traditional “theme song” of the Miss Finland contest, by the way.)

[pipariperho]

This is a Finnish ad the celebrating diversity of women. The song is typically associated with/used during Miss Finland beauty pageant, asking who is the most beautiful and sweetest of the maidens, and in this context very sweet. The ad itself asks why be pretty when you can be 'kesyttämätön', which translates to something like untamable or fierce, and probably ties it to the company, since it makes jewelry using nature as inspiration.

[annashaberdashery]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/659470908/early-very-rare-1930s-kalevala-koru?ref=listing_published_alert

From Pawhill Treasures in Etsy.

[thatcharmingjerk]

Kalevala koru's Heporisti (horse cross) and an old stirrup :)