YEREVAN, OCTOBER 29, ARMENPRESS. Nuran Davulchyan, who arrived in Armenia from Turkey to take part in the 6^th international exhibition of JUNWEX Yerevan show jewellery and watches, started working as a silversmith at the age of 13. He continues the work of his father Arto Davulchyan who started working from 1954.

“All these works are exclusively hand-made, and we have brought several samples. Every year we are taking part in this exhibition, we are working in order to present good works here. We want it to be useful for Armenia, we think of it first. It is already 33 years I am working as a silversmith, and within the years we have started to send our works to other countries as well, we receive orders from Italy, US, Germany, Switzerland, but it is a little hard to bring silvers to Armenia, last year we brought little more with us, but we faced many difficulties”, Nuran Davulchyan told “Armenpress”.

He is presenting tableware products made of silver such as salt-cellars, plates, candlesticks and etc. He said that there is a big demand especially in Istanbul.

“People are coming from other cities to do shopping in our store. You know, several years ago the Armenian masters were doing this work together with the jewellery, but now Armenians are very few working in this sphere, we have total of 99 silversmiths in our city who are working in different parts of tableware. It is impossible for one master to prepare one work. 4 Armenian masters currently are working on us, we wanted that only Armenians work with us”, he said.

He said it is very difficult to learn and made silver tableware by hand.

He added that it is better to start learning at the age of 12-13 rather than 20.