2620) Armenian Carpets, Armenia: HayPost CJSC (Armenian Post) has issued an embroidered postage Stamp of 3,000 AMD (Armenian Drams) presenting Armenia's first embroidered Stamp depicting a pattern used in "Khndzoresk" carpets: Date of Stamp issue: 19.12.2022:
About Armenian Carpets:
The term "Armenian Carpet" designates, but is not limited to, "tufted rugs" or "knotted carpets" woven in Armenia or by Armenians from pre-Christian times to the present.
It also includes a number of flat woven textiles. The term covers a large variety of types and sub-varieties.
Due to their intrinsic fragility, almost nothing survives -neither carpets nor fragments - from antiquity until the late medieval period.
Traditionally, since ancient times the carpets were used in Armenia to cover floors, decorate interior walls, sofas, chairs, beds and tables.
Up to present the carpets often serve as entrance veils, decoration for church altars and vestry.
Starting to develop in Armenia as a part of everyday life, carpet weaving was a must in every Armenian family, with the carpet making and rug making being almost women's occupation.
Armenian carpets are unique "texts" composed of the ornaments where sacred symbols reflect the beliefs and religious notions of the ancient ancestors of the Armenians that reached us from the depth of centuries.
The Armenian carpet and rug weavers preserved strictly the traditions.
The imitation and presentation of one and the same ornament-ideogram in the unlimited number of the variations of styles and colors contain the basis for the creation of any new Armenian carpet.
As such, the characteristic trait of Armenian carpets is the triumph of the variability of ornaments that is increased by the wide gamut of natural colors and tints.
The Postage Stamp:
On 19.12.2022, a postage stamp dedicated to the theme “Armenian carpets” has been put into circulation.
The first embroidered Armenian postage stamp postage stamp with the nominal value of 3000 AMD depicts a part of the pattern used in "Khndzoresk" carpets.
The postage stamp has a unique format as it is fully embroidered and has a self-adhesive backing. The embroidery edge mimics postage stamp perforation.
The type of "Khndzoresk" carpet belongs to a separate subgroup of dragon carpets.
"Khndzoresk" carpet is characterized by an ornament symbolizing eternity (swastika, star, etc.) and eight stylized images of a dragon framing it.
This type of a carpet is typical for the carpet-making centers of Artsakh and Syunik.
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