Luxury Walnut Backgammon Set - Armenian National Costume

Luxury Walnut Backgammon Set - Armenian National Costume

Somewhere in your family album there is a photograph — a great-grandmother in a headdress, a coat heavy with embroidery, a silver belt that has since vanished into history. That is the taraz, the national costume of Armenia, and it is the whole subject of this luxury walnut backgammon set: figures in full dress carved across deep walnut, down to the fall of the sleeves and the ornament on the aprons — costumes that once told you, valley by valley, exactly where their wearer called home.

Then the workshop did something almost unheard of: it married the carving to the real thing. Fragments of genuine handmade carpet are worked into the piece — real carpet, made by hand, the craft these costumes lived alongside for centuries meeting the craft that now remembers them. Every surface of this Armenian backgammon board is entirely handmade and hand-carved; nothing here has ever seen a machine.

Owners of a board like this stop treating it as a game long before they stop playing it. It goes where guests will see it; it comes down for the evenings that matter; it gets pointed at when someone asks what Armenian means in your house. Open the bronze clasps and there is the full 23.6" / 60 cm nardi field — but honestly, most of the time, you will leave it out on show.

What's Included

• Backgammon board with bronze hinges and clasps
• 32 checkers made from beech and walnut wood
• Dice and a carrying bag

Specifications

• Folded: 11.8 x 23.6" / 30 x 60 cm
• Open playing field: 23.6 x 23.6" / 60 x 60 cm
• Weight: 11 lb / 5 kg
• Material: solid walnut wood with bronze hinges and clasps
• Decoration: fragments of genuine handmade carpet
• Handmade in Armenia

Why it stands out

Walnut for the depth, carpet for the soul, and hand-carving for every figure's fold and feature — three Armenian crafts meeting in one piece. This is the workshop at full reach: folk art treated with a jeweler's care that still plays beautifully as a backgammon set. For the collector, the wedding, the milestone — the gift that ends the search.