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This is the text of Vera Mednis telling about two of her weavings, recorded August 20, 1998 by Carrie Kline during the Wisconsin Folklife Festival in Madison, Wisconsin. I wove that one. That is, actually I was thinking of a meadow near my house in October. A Wisconsin meadow in October. With all the subtle browns and grays and the fading grasses and a little bit of fall color in it already. I made sashes out of these colors of these ideas, and I sewed it together, and that’s my meadow. And, of course, the colors are not those of traditional belts anymore. Those are my meadow colors. And I had a thistle bet. I gave it to a friend. I love thistles. The purple moss thistles waving in the wind, you know. And I made a belt of very subtle thistle colors. The purples and greens, a bit of yellow in there. And changing designs as the blossom would move in the wind. That was a thistle bet. So, you take you traditions, you take your knowledge of weaving designs, colors, but you do something completely different with it, but it comes from inside you.
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