Wiki Loves Living Heritage/Intangible Cultural Heritage of Latvia
Latvia
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Baltic song festivals
Himmeli
timber rafting
Latvian Song and Dance Festival
Suiti cultural space
zole
singing with "pusbolss"
tradition of playing the Latgale bubyns frame drum
psalm singing in Northern Latgale
Sigulda walking stick craftsmanship
tradition of crafting and playing the Ieviņš type diatonic accordion
Petersburg accordion performance traditions
performance of the Office of the Dead (saļmi) in the Vabole and Līksna parishes
traditional timber rafting skills on the Gauja river
Latvian melodic Zither performance
Knipelēšana
Livonian Cultural Space
doubleweave colour gradient blanket weaving in Northern Vidzeme
Rucava traditional cultural space
May services at wayside crosses in the Andrupene and Skaune parishes of the Dagda municipality
Upīte Cultural Space
Lamprey fishing and preparation skills in Carnikava
May devotional singing at wayside crucifixes in northern Latgale
glassblowing craft skills in Līvāni
patterned, double-knit mittens in Mazsalaca
Saļmes in Stērnine
Pēteris Viļumsons’ semi-automatic single-treadle looms
Latvian ethnographic gloves
Sigulda belts
dancing tradition in Riga
Vidzeme Livonian culture
singing of signs of the Pomorian Old Believers
Nīcas cultural space
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