Armenia

Armenia preserves khachkar stone crosses, duduk music, carpet weaving and lavash bread.

Building & habitat Music & dance Textile & dress Food & cooking Crafts

Knowledge in this place

Khachkar cross-stone carving

Khachkar cross-stone carving

Carving of cross-stones with intricate interlace, each unique as memorial markers.

Building & habitat

Duduk music

Duduk music

Plaintive double-reed apricot-wood wind instrument central to Armenian identity.

Armenian carpet weaving

Armenian carpet weaving

Knotted wool rugs with dragon and cross motifs and madder-red grounds.

Textile & dress

Lavash baking

Lavash baking

Thin flatbread stretched and slapped onto the wall of a tonir clay oven.

Traditional pottery

Traditional pottery

Wheel-thrown and glazed earthenware with old highland forms and patterns.