EXHIBITION OF ARMENIAN CARPETS OPENS IN WASHINGTON

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Dec 11 2006

WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 11, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. An exhibition
of old-made and modern Armenian carpets opened with December 6 solemn
ceremony at the exhibition-hall of the World Bank in Washington. It
was organized on the initiative of the RA Embassy to the U.S. jointly
with the World Bank. The exhibition in which more than 30 carpets made
in Armenia and Artsakh, models of art, were presented, was organized
within the framework of the program of events of the U.S. Embassy
dedicated to the 15th jubilee of the independence of Armenia. It gave
possibility to get acquainted with models of the Armenian carpet art
as well as with the materials about the millenial history and present
of the art of Armenia, accompanying the exhibition. According to the
information submitted to Noyan Tapan by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press
and Information Department, the exhibition will be open for six months.