00:00In November, we're celebrating 15th anniversary since Art of Carpet Weaving of Azerbaijan became part of the UNESCO list.
00:12And this is also the big achievement for promoting our cultural heritage.
00:30Almost every village, every house had its own room and Azekhalcha has, at this moment, 14 studios in different parts of Azerbaijan with more than 600 weavers.
00:40Art of Carpet Weaving in Azerbaijan is part of the women'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.
00:56Most of them continue family traditions.
01:00I have been working for six years.
01:05I love working. This is my mom's mom.
01:08My mom was a little girl. I got my heart and I got my heart and I got my heart.
01:12I decided to come to the house.
01:15I love the house. I got my heart and I got my heart.
01:19I got my heart and I got my heart.
01:22We need to say it's in our identity and that's why our ladies learn it so quickly.
01:32Most of the carpets, especially the bigger ones, even the smaller ones,
01:36they sit on the loom for months because it's hand knotted.
01:40We have bigger carpets which are like 15 square meters, 20 square meters
01:44and you can imagine how much dust it has and it has been definitely cleaned and washed.
01:50We're preparing, washing it many times.
01:55For us it's also important if every tourist takes at least little parts of our culture with them.
02:02This kind of 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,
02:19now it's in Tirana, previously it was in Chisinau, it was in Riga.
02:24We have thousands of visitors.
02:26The local artists of that country, they visit our exhibition, they meet us
02:31and 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,
02:48but it becomes part of our today's life and the future life.
02:52For more information, visit www.fema.gov.au
02:59For more information, visit www.fema.gov.au
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