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The Depository documents 4 techniques in Azerbaijan; by risk level: 1 critically endangered, 1 endangered, 2 vulnerable. Each record opens with a public summary; the full research record is free to view once registered.
A knotted-pile and pile-less carpet-weaving tradition documented in Azerbaijan since at least the Bronze Age (4th–3rd millennium BCE), organized into distinct regional schools — Ganja-Gazakh, Guba-Shirvan, Tabriz, and Karabakh among them —…
The weaving, hand-dyeing, and wax-resist stamped decoration of kelaghayi, Azerbaijan's traditional square silk headscarf, produced today in only two historic Silk Road centers, Sheki and the village of Basgal, using vegetable-derived dyes…
The hand-smelting, forming, and engraving of copperware in Lahij, a remote mountain village in Azerbaijan's Ismayilli district whose coppersmiths have worked continuously for centuries — evidence of copper tableware production there…
A wooden-lattice stained-glass mosaic technique unique to Sheki, in Azerbaijan's Greater Caucasus, in which colored glass is set into an interlocking wooden frame — walnut, pistachio, or plane-tree wood, depending on the workshop —…