Fabrics
Clip: 4/29/2025 | 1m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
This scenes explores the importance of art to Nellie Rose.
Textile artist and seamstress Nellie Rose Gundersen Davis finds meaning and value in creating art with fabric. This video clip features Nellie hanging her handmade textiles on a scenic West Virginia mountaintop and sharing her thoughts on the significance of this art form to her.
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Fabrics
Clip: 4/29/2025 | 1m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
Textile artist and seamstress Nellie Rose Gundersen Davis finds meaning and value in creating art with fabric. This video clip features Nellie hanging her handmade textiles on a scenic West Virginia mountaintop and sharing her thoughts on the significance of this art form to her.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(fabric rustles) (fingers scratch) (sewing machine whirs) (gentle instrumental music) (machine whirring continues) (footsteps patter) (air whooshes) (gentle music continues) (footstep pattering continues) (wind whooshes) (gentle music continues) (gentle instrumental music) (fabric rustles) - [Nellie] These fabrics hold me together.
(fabric rustles) (gentle music continues) The clothing that I make, hold me together.
(gentle music continues) (fabric rustling continues) I'm trying to understand that they do have purpose.
They do have a place in the world, even if it is just for me.
(gentle music continues) (fabric rustles) (gentle music fades out)
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