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Watercolor illustration of the documented Samegrelo hut arrangement: Sulguni hangs above a central open fire inside a simply outlined one-room space.
Built structures

Georgian cheese-smoking chamber

A Georgian Sulguni smoking chamber is a place for the post-salting smoke stage. Sources document both a nationwide product specification and a distinct one-room hut practice in Samegrelo.

Smokehouses and smoke rooms
Georgia
Editorial illustration of an empty shallow clay ketsi pan over hearth embers; it depicts the Imeretian clay variant, while a separate source documents stone pans in Guria.
Equipment

Ketsi

A ketsi is a Georgian cooking pan traditionally used over hearth embers. Sources document clay pans in Imereti and a Gurian maker of stone or clay examples; they do not describe one standardized design.

Hearth pans and griddles
Western Georgia
Archival watercolor illustration of a two-column Coffey continuous still, interpreted from an 1877 technical diagram and not drawn to scale.
Equipment

Column still

A column still is a distillation apparatus built around one or more vertical columns. Its continuous and rectifying designs appear in several spirits traditions, but materials and product character vary by installation.

Distillation apparatus
Trinidad and Tobago
Illustration of a softly bulging sheepskin sack gathered near its opening, representing a Tushetian Guda maturation vessel; not an exact documented sack.
Equipment

Guda sheepskin sack

A Guda is the hide sack used to mature Tushetian cheese. The evidence supports its traditional material and role but leaves standard dimensions and detailed construction open.

Bags, sacks and casings
Tusheti
Historical illustration contrasts an above-ground Neolithic Georgian clay jar with a separate modern qvevri whose body is shown buried beneath a cellar floor.
Equipment · Historical object

Early Neolithic Georgian grape-wine jars

Very large early Neolithic pottery jars from Georgia carry the earliest biomolecular evidence for grape wine in the Near East. Their probable wine role is documented; their burial and exact relationship to modern qvevri are not.

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Jars, pots and crocks
Georgia
Explanatory cutaway of a traditional Georgian qvevri standing upright, buried to its rim in a marani floor, with wine and settled grape solids in its broad clay body.
Equipment

Qvevri

A qvevri (ქვევრი; kvevri), called churi (ჭური) in Imereti, is a large fired-clay Georgian wine vessel traditionally installed upright in the ground for fermentation, maturation and storage.

Jars, pots and crocks
Georgia