Hello, I'm Narmin
Hasanova

People come here and ask me to explain the technique. I show them the galib, the paraffin, the dye bath. They watch me press the stamp. They say: is that all? It is not all. It is thirty years. My father pressed his first galib at the age of seven. His father pressed his first galib at the age of seven. I pressed mine at the age of seven. My daughter pressed hers last year. She is nine now — she started late, we worried about her. What I cannot explain is what happens in the moment of contact — stamp to silk. There is a second before you press where you know, from the weight of your arm and the give of the fabric, whether the impression will be right. You cannot learn that from a video. You cannot learn it from a book. You learn it from ten thousand wrong impressions, and then one morning you wake up and you know. The artists who send me their patterns — they have seen something true in their own tradition. I see it in the lines. My job is to carry that truth into silk without losing it. That is what five hundred years of kelaghayi has taught us to do.

— Narmin Hasanova, Şeki, Azerbaijan

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Buta — əbədi alov

Şeki, Azərbaycan · kelaghayi · 500 il