Persian Woodencrafts

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Wooden handicrafts are one of the delicate and attractive handicrafts that everyone sees and realizes its art and beauty. A delicate and beautiful wooden work that has been created by hand, shows the taste of its creator for many years, and since its raw materials, which are wood, are abundant and natural in parts of Iran, all kinds of handicraft products that Made from wood or tree trunks is also welcomed.

Wood turning:

Wood carving is one of the handicraft industries of Iran, which has maintained its popularity and gradualness in this field from the distant past. Mostly these wood industries can be seen in more wooded areas of the country.
In the art of carpentry, woods (soft and wet) such as: white wood, walnut, sycamore, alder, willow and…
can be mentioned. These wooden handicrafts have attracted the attention of many tourists to represent and illustrate a part of Iranian art.
The art of carpentry, which is a combination of circular movements of the machine and turning in a symmetrical and horizontal style.

Mosaic:

It is one of the most beautiful and delicate works of art ...
... on mosaic wood. By cutting with a needle, beautiful wooden designs are created delicately and precisely, which are then lubricated to make them shiny. It should be noted that the wood of each tree naturally has its own color, which is used to create different colors and textures in this field of wooden handicrafts. Mosaic in the word means patch. This art is mostly used for decoration, and among its most important products, we can mention the table surface, various types of paintings and calligraphy that are executed in the form of wood mosaics, decorating wooden accessories such as libraries and sideboards. This branch of wood industry can be considered as one of the important fields in small workshops or home businesses.

Inlay:

Khatam is the art of decorating the surface of objects with small triangles, the various designs of which have always been in the form of regular geometric shapes. These geometric shapes are engraved by placing small triangles next to each other. It can be said that Khatam's work is geometric drawings consisting of equilateral triangles that are made of ivory, bone, wood and brass wire and are usually glued to a thickness of two millimeters on the surface of objects.

Woodcarving :

Carving is one of the handicrafts and crafts of wood, which depicts embossed patterns and is obtained by carving on wood. The first history of woodcarving goes back to the distant past, when wood carvings were used with simple tools, and of course, due to different weather conditions and not so long life, the wood was damaged and lost its strength.

Source:
https://www.cyruscrafts.com/categories/55/khatamkari
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