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Paper about Azerbaijan kalaghayi published by ANAS National Museum of Azerbaijan History
18.06.2015 08:44
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Paper about Azerbaijan kalaghayi published by ANAS National Museum of Azerbaijan History

Paper dubbed “The traditional head covering of Azerbaijan women in the early of XIX-XX century”  co-authored by chief of Special foundation department of ANAS National Museum of Azerbaijan History PhD in History Afet Rustambayova and Ruslan Huseynov was published on “Irs” international journal’s next issue in English.

As known, Azerbaijan kalaghayi art has been included the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage by name “Kalaghayi symbolism and traditional art” in 2014. Paper deals with kalaghayi art, one of the vital traditional pieces of art which improving and evolving in the middle ages in Azerbaijan. Paper provides information on various kalaghayi patterns that differ from one another both in terms of technology and content in the line of original decorative techniques in the first quarter of XIX-XX centuries.

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