Georgian enamel, wool felt and ceramics
What is wool felt?
Wool Felt is made of sheep’s wool by felting and mainly requires natural ingredients. Felting is one of the oldest means of wool processing. When making felt, palette of wool is chosen in accordance with the sketch and laid on the net for an artist to work on it individually. Felting technology is old Georgian tradition.
Georgian wool felt
Wool felt in Georgian is often made in mountainous part of the country. You will hear frequently that wearing Georgian felt which is ecologically clean, natural product, has many healing qualities.
Little history
Felt making in Georgia has long historical tradition. According to archeological excavation, its fragments date back to second millennium B.C. As for written sources, in middle ages it was exported from the country together with fabric.
Georgian enamel
Enamel – thin glassy coating, obtained by melting the glass powders of different metals with impurities which give different colors to the product itself.
Method of enamel making
Remains unchanged for twelve centuries. It has complicated technique of enameling, not amenable to mechanization. According to the earliest survived examples the art of Georgia enamel has no less than 1200 years of existence.
Nowadays
Today, the once abandoned traditions are gaining immense importance, people again and again are turning to the ancient works, finding new ways that will eventually necessarily determine its rightful place in the development of Georgian culture.
Georgian Ceramic
The first samples of ceramic ware appeared in the territory of Georgia in the 7th millennium BC. Later, in the 4th-3rd millennia BC along with ceramics there emerged first metal items.
During the centuries working on Ceramic became very popular among Georgian people.
Elder generation taught how to create ceramic to their sons and grandsons. Creating masterpieces of ceramic is very long and hard- working process. It needs time and good will of the creator.
Georgian national arts and crafts are attractive in their simplicity, plasticity and unique tradition forms.