Persiada

One of Isfahan's distinguished art courses is enamel working and decorating metals with colourful and baked coats. Mina is a glass-like coloured coat that can be stabilised by heat on different metals, particularly copper. Meenakari (Minakari) is the art of colouring and ornamenting the surface of metals by fusing over it brilliant colours that are decorated in an intricate design. Persian Enamel handicrafts can be used for wall hanging plates, home decor and candy dishes.

Khatam Kari consists of the production of incrustation patterns (generally star-shaped), with thin sticks of wood (ebony, teak, Ziziphus, orange, rose), brass (for golden parts), camel bones (white parts). Rods are assembled in triangular beams, themselves made and glued in a strict order to create a cylinder, 70 cm in diameter, whose cross-section is the central motif: a six-branch star included in a hexagon and then plated and glued on the object to be decorated, before lacquer finishing. Ivory, gold or silver can also be used for collection objects.

Persian Miniature is a small handmade oil painting on paper or, more importantly, on a piece of camel bone. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. The bright and pure colouring of the Persian Miniature is one of its most striking features. The workshop tradition and division of labour within both individual miniatures complicate paintings' attribution. Some are inscribed with the artist's name, sometimes as part of the picture itself.