> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Varduhi Kirakosyan > Reference:: https://evnreport.com/arts-and-culture/weaving-a-safety-net-how-embroidering-links-two-waves-of-armenian-refugees/ > Date:: 2020-06-28 > Tags:: #warp #Armenia > WeftLinks:: [[Migrant and refugee value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft provides a way of sustaining cultural attachments to home]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Following years of exile and trauma in the early 20th century, families of Armenian genocide survivors retained memories as traces within their crafts, serving as a tactile remembrance of space and time. ### Highlights 'The loss of the homeland naturally links to the loss of identity. Some scholars assert that post-Genocide Armenian identity assumes a sense of the “lost homeland” and the need to regain it. The two generations of the relocated, living in Syria in the 1910s or in Armenia in the 2010s, the migrants and their ancestor deportees, made themselves comfortable in creating and recreating a new concept of “home.” For Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, and for Syrian-Armenians in Yerevan, crafting has served not only as a way of earning a living, but also as a process of rebuilding and reimagining a social world through the temporal markers that help them nurture a sense of “home.”'