'Azeri carpet weaving dates back thousands of years'

CNN has aired a video report on Azerbaijani carpets. The video features an interview with Eldar Mikayilzade, a carpet designer, who says: “This is the ancient culture of our nation.”
“Our traditions have lived for centuries from our grandmothers and grandfathers. I only add small stones to the huge wall that has been built before me.”

“Azerbaijani carpets are on display in museums around the world,” he added. CNN`s Jim Clancy says: “At Azerbaijan`s carpet museum in Baku the tradition comes alive along with realization that it can never be taken for granted. The carpet museum plays a crucial role in trying to revive those traditions, teaching passed down through the centuries. Azeri carpet weaving dates back thousands of years.”

Roya Tagiyeva, director of the Azerbaijan Carpet and Applied Arts Museum, told CNN: “Two or three weavers can make only on centimeter of carpet a day.” Mikayilzade said he made three carpets in the last three years. Jim Clancy says: “What the world derives from the beauty of an Azerbaijani carpet is truly what the weavers have put into it.”


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