Smithsonian Armenian Rug

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Smithsonian armenian rug. The silk rug they presented was the second in a series of three that had been woven in yerevan armenia as part of a training program at the folk arts hub foundation founder levon der bedrossian co presented the session on the national mall sharing the technique and challenges behind the art of silk weaving. It was returned by the coolidge family to the white house in 1982. The armenian rugs society is a non profit organization founded in washington d c. From the smithsonian folklife festival armenia.

During the soviet period armenians revived and industrialized rug production through a web of cooperatives and in 1963 the state controlled haygorg armenian rug production unit. These handcrafted armenian rugs honor the styles of the first known rug making culture in recorded history. In 1980 dedicated to the identification preservation and dissemination of knowledge of armenian rugs. If the climate is simply too politicized for the rug to be exhibited.

The armenian national committee of america launched a nationwide campaign last month on the orphan rug issue after the washington post reported that a planned december 16th smithsonian institution. The armenian orphan rug also known as the ghazir orphans rug is an armenian styled carpet woven by orphans of the armenian genocide in ghazir lebanon the carpet took eighteen months to make and was eventually shipped to the united states where it was given to president calvin coolidge as a gift in 1925. Cover art for president calvin coolidge and the armenian orphan rug by dr. Armenian carpets artifacts.

In the post soviet period many traditional handmade carpets scattered from armenia into private collections. Browse our collection of decadent armenian carpets. According to renowned rug scholar ulrich schurmann the earliest known existing rug known as the pazyryk circa 500 b c was in all probability woven by ancestors of the armenians the urartuans the people of ararat.