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Maria Kieleczawa - Wybrani twórcy Jarmarku Jagiellońskiego 2017 - Duration: 3:41.

My name is Maria Kieleczawa,

I've come here from Wrocław,

where I've been living for the past 35 years. I'm a Lemko [Translator's Note: Lemkos are an ethnic minority].

Since early childhood, I've been exposed to wax-resist (batik) pysanky, the Lemko pysanky.

It's a family tradition. My daughters are fifth generation pysanky creators.

What are the features of Lemko pysanky?

Lemko pysanky, as you see, have one colour here.

There are more colours there, but here, the one-colour Lemko eggs have floral motifs and the colour range is wide.

A pysanka that is characteristic for the Lemko tradition is black.

It's about the beautiful contrast and such an egg was given to priests, parish priests, dignitaries.

In the past giving a black pysanka made the recipient feel very valued, dignified.

The Hutsul pysanky carry regular geometric shapes.

I've got an example of a beautiful technique right here.

This is how we make one piece, step by step. One piece takes 4-5 days to make, this is what this technique requires.

This is the wax-resist batik technique, which was discovered in the 10th century in the Kiev region.

It's a very old technique.

Batik means wax-resist method.

So how do they differ?

As I've just said, these have regular geometric shapes, while these have floral motifs and a lot of little circles, or koliczka in Lemko language.

Lots of little circles. So, yes, we have lots of circles here: rings, closed circles.

So circles are the foundation here. Now these eggs here, as I've said, take 4-5 days to make.

It's the layering phase.

And here, as I've said, we have regular shapes, a triangle is put next to a triangle and we get a star.

The first thing we see are the geometric shapes and black is the dominant colour…for Hutsul pysanky.

And how have I come to make Hutsul pysanky?

In 1995, I saw an exhibition about Pokuttya and the Hutsul region at the National Ossoliński Institute in Wrocław.

The exhibition stayed open for three months. It was my inspiration

I saw eggs like these – let me show you.

These are the original patterns, from before the war.

I returned home and started making them.

It's not difficult to copy something else, that's not much of a problem at all.

The trick is to add something original to the existing canons.

That's when such a pysanka becomes valuable;

when you innovate and add a part of yourself to the standards.

And I have made something new.

22 years ago when someone saw a decorated egg, the reaction was "Woah, Easter!" Pysanky were one thing, then there were also Christmas tree balls.

Foreign visitors who came here, they knew and bought things that Poland is famous for.

Because it's a Christian country, pysanky are very well known as are Christmas tree balls but it's not like this anymore.

And it's my great success and contribution that things have changed [TN: and that it's not just random any more, that pysanky and other handcrafts are recognized and valued as forms of traditional art].

I travelled a lot and talked about our traditions, explained things, especially with foreign guests in mind.

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Is VW preparing to show a mid-size pickup truck in New York? - Duration: 5:42.

Volkswagen is considering a jump into the midsize pickup segment with a U.S.-made truck

that could be built in Tennessee, sources familiar with the matter told Automotive News.

The pickup, a derivative of the Atlas large crossover, is expected to be introduced on

Wednesday at the New York auto show as a surprise concept alongside a new coupe-styled variant

of the Atlas already scheduled for production.

A VW spokesman declined to comment on the concept vehicle.

Volkswagen brand officials want to strengthen sales in regions such as the U.S. with more

product designed for local tastes.

It also plans to launch a new compact crossover for the U.S. market in 2020 based not on the

sportier T-Roc sold in Europe but on the beefier "Powerful Family SUV" concept shown on Friday

in Beijing.

U.S. consumers are increasingly shifting to light trucks -- notably crossovers, SUVs and

pickups -- prompting automakers to dramatically retool product plans and in some cases, pare

unprofitable car models from their lineups.

Ford Motor Co. says an expanded light-truck lineup will account for 86 percent of its

U.S. sales volume by 2020, up sharply from about 70 percent today.

In the U.S. last year, light trucks accounted for just nearly 23 percent of the VW brand's

sales, compared with 64 percent for the overall light-vehicle market, according to the Automotive

News Data Center.

Ending chronic financial losses in the U.S. is a key part of Volkswagen brand CEO Herbert

Diess' 2025 plan to turn around a unit struggling with low profitability and still marred by

fallout from widespread diesel emissions violations.

Last year, the VW brand paid out 13.8 billion euros ($17.05 billion) to settle fines, claims

and other costs relating to the emissions scandal.

If the pickup concept receives positive reviews during the New York show, it could go into

production relatively soon and would be built at VW's Tennessee assembly plant, sources

said.

No German brand offers a pickup in the U.S. and Mercedes-Benz has decided for now not

to sell a production version of the midsize X-Class in the U.S. because of cost and image

concerns, among other reasons.

"Diess has supported it from a very early phase in the project," one VW official, who

declined to be named because the plans are not yet public, said about the planned pickup.

More competition

Like the Atlas, the pickup would be built off the VW brand's highly scalable MQB architecture

and aimed at rivals such as the Honda Ridgeline in an increasingly competitive segment.

The Ford Ranger, once the top-selling midsize pickup in the U.S. but discontinued in 2011,

will return next year.

Hyundai is also expected to field a new pickup based on the Santa Cruz concept previewed

at the 2015 Detroit auto show.

Volkswagen already markets a midsize pickup called the Amarok in other markets outside

of the U.S. through its light commercial vehicles subsidiary headquartered in Hanover.

However, it is designed and engineered to be a workhorse and is built on a ladder-type

frame to carry heavy payloads like the overwhelming majority in the segment.

By comparison, the concept to be shown in New York will be based on a unibody platform

-- similar to the Ridgeline -- and targeted more at lifestyle-oriented pickup owners who

don't need to pile 1,950 pounds or more into the bed of the truck.

Made in the USA

While the idea of an emotionally styled, "Made in the USA" pickup is attractive for a brand

that wants to rehabilitate itself in the eyes of American consumers, there are doubts whether

a positive business case can be made for the concept.

"I don't think anyone will be able to get the cost calculation right since you need

the volumes," said another company source familiar with the project.

"The Atlas ... and its coming five-seat derivative can get that since both can be sold in China

[as the Teramont], but a pickup like this would likely just be for the U.S. and Canadian

market."

The 2019 Ridgeline, which starts at $30,965 (including shipping), produced U.S. sales

of 34,749 last year.

By comparison, the Atlas crossover starts at $31,675 (including shipping).

U.S. sales of midsize pickups, dominated by the Toyota Tacoma and Chevrolet Colorado,

rose less than 1 percent to 452,335 last year compared to 2016.

Deliveries have jumped 20 percent in the first two months of the year.

IHS Markit doesn't expect the segment to top 480,000 sales annually through 2025.