Azerbaijan to mark Carpet Weavers’ Day

Carpet Weavers’ Day will be celebrated in Azerbaijan for the first time on May 5. President Ilham Aliyev signed an order in November 2016 on the establishment of a professional holiday “Carpet Weavers’ Day”, which will honor weavers of Azerbaijan's enchanting and vivid carpets.

Bright, colored and unique Azerbaijani carpets are well-known all over the world for their quality and high artistic value. Azerbaijani rugs are the honorary "residents" at the White House, State Department, and every important museums in the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Louvre, Victoria and Albert Museum, Vatican, and the Hermitage.

Thanks to the care of the country, the Azerbaijani carpet art was included into the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO in late 2010.

Azerbaijan Carpet Museum will host a series of events devoted to the contemporary carpet art, such as roundtable, exhibition, and workshops on May 4-5.

More than 100 country's leading and individual weavers, carpet artists and experts, teachers and students of the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts and other professionals working in this field will attend the event.

Various issues, including today’s development of carpet art and its current problems and solution ways; research and promotion of the forgotten weaving techniques and passing them to the future generation; provision of carpet weavers with raw metarials; preservation of specific characteristics of each region in the period of globalization, etc will be discussed at the round table.

Furthermore, a fairy-exhibition will feature works of participants from all corners of the country, such as carpets and carpet products that were woven with natural dyes. The exhibition aims to preserve carpet art and support individual weavers working in this notable field.

In addition, workshops on the forgotten pile and flat woven techniques will be organized as part the events.

For more information, please visit: www.azcarpetmuseum.az www.facebook.com/AzerbaycanXalcaMuzeyi/

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