(30 Jun 2024)
BOSNIA FELT PICTURES
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina - 25 June 2024
1. Wide of maker of felt pictures, Aida Pasalic, sitting behind desk in home studio, working on new picture
2. Mid of Pasalic sitting behind desk, making felt picture
3. Close of Pasalic’s hands at work
4. Close of multi-coloured felt
5. Various of Pasalic teasing out fibres and making felt picture
6. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Aida Pasalic, maker of felt pictures:
“When I realized how the passing of time is erasing our old crafts, I believed that it was very important to resurrect them. I am an artistic soul and I believe that all forms of art, which - in my opinion - include heritage crafts, have a huge potential to build bridges between people. One aspect of this bridge-building is linking the old and new generations and I contribute to it by sharing with the young the old ways of an old craft and thus saving it from being forgotten.”
7. Various of Pasalic, seen through shelves, working on a felt picture
8. Various of Pasalic’s felt pictures
9. Lejla Agic, Zenica City Museum educator, walking through museum
10. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Lejla Agic, Zenica City Museum educator:
“Throughout history, Bosnia-Herzegovina was known for its traditional crafts, we used to have a registry of over 400 different, mutually related crafts. These included different forms, all different ways, of wool processing, including felting, weaving, combing, washing and dying with natural colors. For a variety of reasons, sheep husbandry used to be and still is widespread in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Sheep raising for sustenance, for dairy products, is currently dominant, but in the past, it was also seen as a source of an important raw material: wool.”
11. Various of a traditional loom exhibited at museum
12. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Lejla Agic, Zenica City Museum educator:
“The aim of the ('Made In') project is for us to find new stories, the newly emerging crafts, that is the crafts that pair tradition with products that can attract modern consumers, interesting and useful products relying on heritage crafts, preserving the traditional techniques and nudging them in a new direction.”
13. Various of a traditional loom exhibited at museum
14. Old photo displayed on museum wall of group of women sitting behind looms, weaving
15. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Lejla Agic, Zenica City Museum educator:
“One such new idea born out of a heritage wool processing craft is the making of felt pictures by Mrs. Aida Pasalic.”
16. Various of Pasalic standing over a group of young people gathered around a table, teaching them to work with felt
17. Various of group making felt pictures with Pasalic supervising them
STORYLINE:
LEADIN
An artist in central Bosnia is keeping traditions alive by embracing a traditional craft.
Aida Pasalic has become an expert at creating pictures from felt and now she's passing on the technique to a younger generation.
STORYLINE
Artist Aida Pasalic sits quietly, immersed in an old-fashioned craft in her home studio.
Pasalic is felting pictures using the coloured wool piled to one side of her wooden desk.
A mechanical engineer by training, Pasalic sees hand-felting pictures of landscapes and flowers as a way of honouring a craft grounded in the country's history as a nation of shepherds.
In Bosnia, wool traditionally was used for clothing, packaging, carpets and even wall panelling.
Along with nearly 400 other heritage crafts, it has become a victim of modernity and has waned in popularity.
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