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The Depository documents 5 techniques in Georgia; by risk level: 2 critically endangered, 2 vulnerable. Each record opens with a public summary; the full research record is free to view once registered.
The hand-carving of Georgia's two closely related traditional long-necked lutes — the three-stringed, fretted panduri and its larger, fretless descendant the chonguri — shaped from carefully selected and thoroughly dried mulberry, walnut,…
A cloisonné enameling tradition, documented in Georgia for at least 1,200 years, in which fine silver or gold wire is bent into intricate compartment shapes, fused to a metal base, filled with colored glass enamel made from natural mineral…
The wet-felting of raw sheep's wool into the nabadi, a long, high-shouldered felt cloak worn for centuries by Georgian mountain shepherds (chaban) and other peoples across the Caucasus — a garment so densely and firmly felted that a…
The hand-coiling and firing of qvevri, the large egg-shaped clay vessels at the center of a Georgian winemaking tradition documented archaeologically to roughly 6000 BCE — among the oldest continuously practiced winemaking technologies on…
The hand-baking of Georgia's iconic boat-shaped bread in the tone, a deep, well-like clay oven whose name shares an ancient linguistic root with the Indian tandoor, in which a baker leans low into the oven's scorching mouth and slaps raw…