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Mana Latvija

November 24, 2018 Filed Under: Exhibitions, Quilts 1 Comment

Even I live in Lithuania, I am a member of Latvian Quilt Association. Today I took  a quick drive to Bauska, Latvia. On November 18th of this year Latvia celebrated 100 years of independence. For this occasion our association opened an exhibition of quilts at Bauska local history and art museum

The exhibition is called Mana Latvia (My Latvia). Here is the poster:

The poster was designed on a base of the quilt For Latvia made by Guna Sedliniece. She used colors and looks of Latvian flag. Very simple but very powerful.

Two of my quilts are exhibited there as well. My Lava quilt and Field of Poppies in Latvia. For that I was inspired when driving in Latvia I saw a huge field of poppies going way back to the horizon.

Lava
Field of Poppies in Latvia

I was surprised there were only few traditional quilts exhibited. Latvian quilters truly advanced in a field of art quilts. So many different quilts made in all different techniques:

Midsummer Night by Lolita Simane
The Oaks of Madlena by Edite Lase

 

Detail shows that the blocks are woven from very narrow strips
Blown by the Wind by Inga Vasiljeva
Detail
Birch Trees of Latvia by Dzintra Bitena
Improvisation of Colors by Svetlana Fedoseeva
The Homeland by Valentina Velkere
Purvitis (Latvian Painter) by Rita Simane

Two of just four traditional quilts:

Migration of Birds by Gunta Skeltona
Inheritance by Inara Dalbina

The exposition is very interesting because it is not taking place just in an empty space. It is in one of the museum’s halls where different things from Latvia’s past are on display as well.

Old weaving loom
Trying to understand how they did it
From the other side…
A bed and a cradle
A cradle

I was glad I took time to go there even I have so many thing waiting to be done. Just two days ago I came back from the trip to Ghana and am almost ready to write few blog entries about it.

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  1. Adele says

    November 24, 2018 at 10:37 pm

    Very nice! I like it.

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