Azerkhalcha met en avant l'héritage et l'avenir des tapis azerbaïdjanais
Azerkhalcha préserve la tradition azerbaïdjanaise du tissage de tapis, reconnue par l'UNESCO, en valorisant les femmes rurales et en promouvant un savoir-faire artisanal séculaire à travers des expositions internationales et des partenariats culturels.
00:30Almost every village, every house had its own loom and Azekhalcha has at this moment 14 studios in different parts of Azerbaijan with more than 600 weavers.
00:41Art of carpet weaving in Azerbaijan is part of the woman's story.
00:45Azekhalcha is only organization where more than 85% of our employees are rural women.
00:52This art of carpet weaving lives in Azerbaijan for centuries.
00:55Most of them continue family traditions.
01:00We need to say it's in our identity.
01:28And that's why our ladies learn it so quickly.
01:32Most of the carpets, especially the bigger ones, even the smaller ones, they sit on the loom for months because it's hand knotted.
01:40We have a bigger carpet which are like 15 square meters, 20 square meters.
01:43And you can imagine how much dust it has.
01:47And it has been definitely cleaned and washed.
01:50We were preparing, washing it many times.
01:53For us, it's also important if every tourist takes at least little part of our culture with them.
02:02This kind of, of course, purchase, it supports at least one rural woman, one of our weaver in one of the regions of Azerbaijan.
02:10In past years, we had big exhibitions of our carpets in Madrid, in Berlin, in Den Haag, now it's in Tirana, previously it was in Chisinau, it was in Riga.
02:23We have, we have thousands of visitors, the local artists of that country, they visit our exhibition, they meet us, and then they approach to us how it can work, etc.
02:35Based on this kind of promotions, we meet our future, let's say, partners for collaborations.
02:41It's our folk art, it's our history, and our goal to make it not just stays as a history, but it becomes part of our today's life and the future life.
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