Ancient Iranian pottery in Salimabad village of Tonekabon
The first pottery wheel was invented in 3500 BC, after the invention of the pottery wheel, a new development in this traditional art emerged and the variety of pottery was greatly expanded, so much so that today in the 400-family village of Salimabad Tonekabon live families who all They are pottery and make halal sustenance by carving flowers.
The seven-thousand-year-old pottery cycle continues to flourish in the village of Salimabad Tonekabon
Salimabad is one of the villages in the central part of Tonekabon, which has been introduced as the target village of ecotourism due to its natural, cultural and handicraft attractions, because it maintains its traditional architecture and its location at the foot of the mountain to this village. The pottery village also has a special effect.
The art of pottery in Salimabad and between the Mohebbi family is about a century old, and to see this original art, it is enough to go a few kilometers out of Tonekabon.
The village receives about 300 tons of foreign tourists and a large number of domestic travelers annually.
Mohebbi’s family has been engaged in pottery since 1289 as ancestors in this village and has attracted many tourists to this village.
A family called Mohebbi, who, in spite of the hustle and bustle of urban life and today’s jobs, have set up a simple workshop in the corner of the traditional walls in the village, a straw straw workshop where the 7,000-year-old breath of Iranian pottery can be heard.
About 30 members of Mohebbi’s family are engaged in this work and their livelihood is in this way.
Mr. Mohebbi, one of the professional potters in the village of Salimabad Tonekabon, while making a pottery pot with muddy hands and a wrinkled face, which has been whitewashed in his pottery workshop for 70 years, says in an interview with a reporter from the Provinces Group of the Young Journalists Club of Sari: This art continues for three generations in this family, and he inherited the art of pottery from his ancestors, and he intends to teach it to his children.
One of Mr. Mohebbi’s children is also known for his young hands and face, which he has just put in the way of his father. He has learned from his grandparents and I am looking for new products with more marketability every day on various sites and books.
Ms. Mohebbi and another pottery artist in the village of Salimabad and pottery with engravings and paintings left over from ancestral art, she also spoke with a reporter from the Provinces Group of the Young Journalists Club of Sari in the corner of their small and loving workshop and family love. He says: In this workshop, 150 pottery structures, including pottery, including bowls, pots, vases and decorative pottery, are made and sent to the market inside and outside the province.