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After three days’ postponement due to bad weather conditions, Marijan Bušić and his associates today successfully created the giant “Tie in the Rye”. In the middle of 25 hectares of grain, near the village of Davor, not far from Nova Gradiška, as they harvested they created a Tie, covering an area of 10 hectares, 850 m long, about 230 m wide, the golden yellow color of ripened grain.
The harvest of the grain and the formation of the Tie began at 9 a.m. The first swathe was cut by hand by the creator of the project, Marijan Bušić, and he was immediately joined by a group of Slavonian “brides” (“snasha”) in national costumes, reaping with scythes and binding the cut grain in swathes. The atmosphere of a real harvest was made complete by the songs of a group of members of the Antun Matija Reljković Folklore Society from Davor, and several young men – dressed as horsemen, in the uniform of Croatian soldiers from the 17th century. For it was precisely in the 17th century that the authentic historic story began of Croatian soldiers in Paris, with their knotted kerchiefs, which the French, and then the entire world, came to call “cravats
