Persian Handicrafts

Ghalamkar fabric is a type of Textile handprinting or handpainting, 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 mostly..

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..

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. Mina is the feminine form of Minoo in Persian, meaning heaven. Mina refers to the Azure colour of heaven. Enamel working and dec..

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 miniatures,..

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..

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..

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..

Ghalamkar fabric is a type of Textile handprinting or handpainting, 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 mostly..