ფაფანაკი: The Georgian Hat That Carries a Nation’s If you walk through the old streets of Tbilisi — past the sulfur baths of Abanotubani, along the Mtkvari river, up into the Narikala fortress — you begin to notice the absences. The craftspeople who once filled the bazaars with handmade textiles, the tailors who worked from memory rather than patterns, the ceremony that surrounded even everyday dressing.Memory
The Papanaki — ფაფანაკი in Georgian script — is one of those presences that had been drifting toward absence. A […]