belarusian ethnographer origin volya dzemka works in a workshop in seattle. due to an incurable autoimmune disease, she hides her face under a mask, but despite the daily struggle with the disease, the woman tries to revive as many folk costumes as possible. we have this cabinet with authentic ukrainian outfits. and we have this closet with belarusians. volya has been collecting and restoring traditional clothes for over 15 years. previously, her hobby mostly concerned belarusian authentic clothes. but that changed when, in 2022, russia launched a full-scale war in ukraine. you think i must be sleeping because all these deaths and all the time there is blood both on the screens and in the head, and you constantly want to do something, but you feel like this... one day her ukrainian friends told her that they were planning to organize a charity show of embroidery, and willa realized what she could do to be useful and then of course it clicked for me: vyshyvanka. at that time, i had two full uniforms, one from chernihiv, one from kyiv. and i say: "girls, let me