A Gabbeh a hand-woven pile rug of coarse quality and medium size (90 x 150 cm or larger) characterized by an abstract design that relies upon open fields of color and a playfulness with geometry. This type of rug is popular among the populations of the Zagros Mountains of Iran, including Kurdis..
Minakari is the art of colouring and ornamenting the surface of copper by fusing brilliant colours that are decorated in intricate designs. Usually, copper is chosen and shaped by an expert coppersmith.The patterns of Iranian enamel work are traditional designs depending on the taste of the art..
Ghalamkar fabric is a type of Textile hand printing or hand-painting, patterned Iranian Fabric. The fabric is printed using patterned wooden stamps. The stamps are mostly made of pear wood which has better flexibility and density for carving and long-standing utility. Ghalamkar designs are most..
Miniature Painting or Miniator is a small handmade oil painting on paper as a book illustration or more commonly on a piece of camel bone.The bright and pure colouring of the Persian miniature is one of its most striking attributions to these paintings.As well as the figurative scenes in miniat..
A Gabbeh a hand-woven pile rug of coarse quality and medium size (90 x 150 cm or larger) characterized by an abstract design that relies upon open fields of color and a playfulness with geometry. This type of rug is popular among the populations of the Zagros Mountains of Iran, including Kurdis..
Minakari is the art of colouring and ornamenting the surface of copper by fusing brilliant colours that are decorated in intricate designs. Usually, copper is chosen and shaped by an expert coppersmith.The patterns of Iranian enamel work are traditional designs depending on the taste of the art..
Khatamkari the Persian Style Marquetry is the incrustation pattern, generally star-shaped, with thin sticks of beech or Ziziphus wood, brass for golden parts and camel bones for white parts.The Sticks are assembled in triangular beams and glued to create a cylinder. The cross-section is now a s..
Miniature Painting or Miniator is a small handmade oil painting on paper as a book illustration or more commonly on a piece of camel bone.The bright and pure colouring of the Persian miniature is one of its most striking attributions to these paintings.As well as the figurative scenes in miniat..
A Gabbeh a hand-woven pile rug of coarse quality and medium size (90 x 150 cm or larger) characterized by an abstract design that relies upon open fields of color and a playfulness with geometry. This type of rug is popular among the populations of the Zagros Mountains of Iran, including Kurdis..
Khatamkari the Persian Style Marquetry is the incrustation pattern, generally star-shaped, with thin sticks of beech or Ziziphus wood, brass for golden parts and camel bones for white parts.The Sticks are assembled in triangular beams and glued to create a cylinder. The cross-section is now a s..
Persian Pottery historically goes back to the early Neolithic Age (7th millennium BCE) in Iran. The Samanid period saw the creation of epigraphic pottery to include the production of Minakari-ware, enamelled with figures on white background dishes. Samarqand and Nishapur were both centres of pr..
Persian Pottery historically goes back to the early Neolithic Age (7th millennium BCE) in Iran. The Samanid period saw the creation of epigraphic pottery to include the production of Minakari-ware, enamelled with figures on white background dishes. Samarqand and Nishapur were both centres of pr..