" The complex history of Armenian weaving and needlework was acted out in the Near East , a vast , ancient , and ethnically diverse region . Few are the people who , like the Armenians , can boast of a continuous and consistent record of fine textile production from the 1st millennium BC to the present . Armenians today are blessed by the diversity and richness of a textile heritage passed on by thirty centuries of diligent practice ; yet they are burdened by the pressure to keep alive a tradition nearly destroyed in the Armenian Genocide of 1915 , and subverted by a technology that condemns handmade fabrics to museums and lets machines produce perfect , but lifeless cloth "
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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