Needlework 101
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Armenia / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2018 June 30
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2018, Item SFF2018_0630_Armenia_The_Workshop_0003
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content: Ashkhen Khudaverdyan; Ayda Santourian; The nineteenth-century Armenian home featured an abundance of laces and embroidered textiles, ely during weddings and feasts, when families displayed their finest. Needlework was one of few forms of expression open to women in a society where they were largely without rights or prestige. It provided a "voice": stitches, instead of words, became a language. Learn the beginning steps of Marash embroidery from Ayda Sandurian, whose grandmother carried the tradition from Western Armenia to Aleppo, Syria. Today, Ayda teaches the tradition in Yerevan. Activities for all ages.