Publish Date: 23 March 2016 - 15:45

Beautiful handicraft of Iran

TEHRAN, Mar. 23 (MNA) - Iran's sheer diversity of handicrafts provides excellent artwork of aesthetic beauty for the reflecting minds upon the nature and mission of art. The Iranian millennia-old art of making handicrafts is very popular with lovers of the oriental attic items of invaluable quality and beauty.

The art of minakari or enameling is called miniature of fire as well as the decoration of metal and tile with mina glaze.

Khātam is a Persian version of marquetry, art forms made by decorating the surface of wooden articles with delicate pieces of wood, bone and metal precisely-cut geometrical shapes.

Ceramic glaze is an impervious layer or coating of a vitreous substance which has been fused to a ceramic body through firing. Glaze can serve to color, decorate or waterproof an item.

Ceramic glaze

Pile-woven Persian rugs

Miniature painting

The history of calligraphy in Persia dates back to the pre-Islam era. In Zoroastrianism beautiful and clear writings were always praised.

Calligraphy

Miniature painting

Scrimshaw the removal of decorations and designs on metal objects, particularly copper, gold, silver, brass, or in other words create lines and patterns by pen and by hammering on metal objects.

Scrimshaw

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