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18-YEAR-OLD MARIANNA, CARPET MAKING AND METS TAGHER
http://karabakh-open.info/en/societyen/3411-en849
Friday, 22 February 2013 16:08
In contrast to her contemporaries 18-year-old Marianna chose such a
profession that is not in fashion among the youths.
Carpet making is my first profession. As she says because of the
socially unfavourable condition of the family she was not able to
continue her education and decided to stay in her native village Mets
Tagher after she left school.
The village of Mets Tagher in Hadrout region is famous for carpet
making and as the villagers assure carpet making has a centuries-old
history here.
During the years of the Soviet Union there was a carpet-making
centre here which was closed during the Artsakh movement. In 2004 the
Traditional Factory of Mets Tagher began its operation in the village,
it had 12 employees but did not work long. Though there are a lot of
carpet makers in Mets Tagher at present there is only one work shop
where Marianna apprentices with her master 41-year-old Elina Galstyan
who has been engaged in carpet-making since 2003.
In the work shops rugs, carpets and socks are knitted. In 2003-2006
its production was exported to Armenia and to foreign countries. Today
the production is sold mainly to the tourists of the village as Mets
Tagher has no lack of visitors.
The rugs are sold at 25 thousand drams and the socks at 2 thousand.
Marianna says that she has been interested in the profession since her
childhood. The work shop was on her way to the school and she always
followed the work inside with greatest interest. Now she herself is
a worker in the work shop and tries to master her profession but she
regrets to say that her friends and acquaintances take no interest
in it.
Her master, however, does not want her children to choose this way.
"They will get a better education so that they could orient themselves
in life," she says and continues, "soon we shall get the threads for
five years and will be able to knit larger rugs. I hope we shall have
more workplaces in the nearest future."
With this hope Marianna Muradyan and Elina Galstyan go to work every
day where they string the coloured threads and get the designed
picture in the form of a rug."
http://karabakh-open.info/en/societyen/3411-en849
Friday, 22 February 2013 16:08
In contrast to her contemporaries 18-year-old Marianna chose such a
profession that is not in fashion among the youths.
Carpet making is my first profession. As she says because of the
socially unfavourable condition of the family she was not able to
continue her education and decided to stay in her native village Mets
Tagher after she left school.
The village of Mets Tagher in Hadrout region is famous for carpet
making and as the villagers assure carpet making has a centuries-old
history here.
During the years of the Soviet Union there was a carpet-making
centre here which was closed during the Artsakh movement. In 2004 the
Traditional Factory of Mets Tagher began its operation in the village,
it had 12 employees but did not work long. Though there are a lot of
carpet makers in Mets Tagher at present there is only one work shop
where Marianna apprentices with her master 41-year-old Elina Galstyan
who has been engaged in carpet-making since 2003.
In the work shops rugs, carpets and socks are knitted. In 2003-2006
its production was exported to Armenia and to foreign countries. Today
the production is sold mainly to the tourists of the village as Mets
Tagher has no lack of visitors.
The rugs are sold at 25 thousand drams and the socks at 2 thousand.
Marianna says that she has been interested in the profession since her
childhood. The work shop was on her way to the school and she always
followed the work inside with greatest interest. Now she herself is
a worker in the work shop and tries to master her profession but she
regrets to say that her friends and acquaintances take no interest
in it.
Her master, however, does not want her children to choose this way.
"They will get a better education so that they could orient themselves
in life," she says and continues, "soon we shall get the threads for
five years and will be able to knit larger rugs. I hope we shall have
more workplaces in the nearest future."
With this hope Marianna Muradyan and Elina Galstyan go to work every
day where they string the coloured threads and get the designed
picture in the form of a rug."