Armenia Capet Culture

Armenia is resided with people who still are one of the ancient people in the world with their faiths & beliefs completely intact. With their arts dating back to thousands of years, the Armenians have kept their age old art firmly back to thousands of years. They worked extensively on carpet making art apart from their other art forms. And by the Middle Ages, the rugs had become a profitable commodity which helped in yielding a world-wide fame to the Armenian rug-making art which is still very much in demand worldwide.


Carpet & Culture
It is since primitive years that the carpet making art has maintained its charisma & is a widespread phenomenon with stable traditions in Armenian life. Being woven before the Christ's birth, the manin centers till date in the Armenian regions known for awesome carpet manufacturing are Dvin, Ani, Karin, Caesarea, Sebastia, Vaspourakan, Tapon, Qoghtan, Syunik to name a few. The Armenian weavers were even engaged in carpet weaving in other countries as in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Arabic countries & Turkey.


The writings, paintings & illuminated manuscripts produced in the 406 A.D. gives ample insight to the significance of the carpet role in the Armenian society & oriental rugs in general. Be it the historical details, heroic tales or the miniature paintings of royalty & religious scenes, they all contain enough detailed illustrations of Armenian rugs.

Carpets & rugs played a crucial role in the people's lives & were considered as status symbols which had innumerable applications. As they were either used as on the floor or hung on the wall for creating the perfect ambiance required for the cozy house or church. Both the Armenians & non-Armenians had a customary habit of dining on the rugs. All the rich & the famous & the powerful prized these beautiful Armenian rugs which were even used paid as part of a yearly "tax" along with mules, falcons & others. Those woven with golden & silver threads were expensive ones & were placed on the thrones or used at the feet of Armenian royalty.


Churches in Armenia regarded the Armenian rugs as highly treasured item. These were even woven to commemorate a special event as a royal wedding or to honor the dead. Though, provincial village women were the primary weavers of rugs, male weavers too were a part of it. With most of them woven with wool easily obtainable, the weavers would use them in the best way & weave firmly to produce a marvelous piece of art, making them as soft & supple. They would make immense usage of dyes & colors to beautify their creations.

As already mentioned, rugs & carpets featured as necessary items in everyday domestic life. In case of lack of wood which was mostly used for building material, they would use carpets & rugs apart from bats mats & matting. Almost all villages in Armenia was into this kind of weaving art. They ultimately became an indispensable part in their life, even functioning as one of the main items in the dowry of the Armenian girls who would make them on their own from a very young age.

Descriptions concerning rugs & carpets are found quite prominently in the Armenian folklore, the tales, & legends. Th Armenian crimson-flamed carpet were often used to decorate royal palaces, banquet halls, wedding ceremonies & enriched expositions in well-known museums. They were even spread before heroes as a token of reverence & glorification. Earlier, carpets were even used for covering horses or mules.