Azeri carpets impress Lithuanian President - PHOTOS

President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite has today visited Sehrli Ilmeler (Magic Stitches) gallery owned by Azerilma Ltd, a carpet weaving company. The guest was briefed on the carpet weaving, one of the oldest and most traditional forms of art in Azerbaijan.

For centuries Azerbaijan had been a country of various handicrafts, particularly carpet-making. Azeri carpets adorn many museum and private collections in the world.

The Lithuanian President was informed that Azerilma Ltd. was established in order to revive and enable the further development of the traditional Azerbaijani carpet-weaving art which has materially and spiritually enriched the world culture with its unique examples of carpets. At the same time Azerilma contributes to the popularization of this unique art through its carpet sales organized worldwide. The company commenced its activity in 1996. The professional staff of Azerilma Ltd. comprises 350 people.

There are many designers, arts critics, carpet-weavers, dyers and other specialists amongst them. Products of Azerilma were awarded with the prizes and certificates of the exhibitions held in US, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and Russia.

For its activity, the Company was awarded the European Quality Award of the "United Europe" and "Leaders of the 21st Century" image programs run by the European Business Assembly.

Mrs. Grybauskaite signed a guest book here. A book of the head of Azerilma Vidadi Muradov "Azerbaijani carpets. Karabakh group" published under the project of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation "All schools of Azerbaijani carpets" was gifted to the President of Lithuania.


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