Fall from the throne to the carpet of carpet sellers

Fall from the throne to the carpet of carpet sellers

Years ago, in many houses, especially in the villages, women were carpet weavers, and men and women read the map aloud and the carpet weavers knotted it.

Flowers sprouted on the carpet, buds opened, birds sang. Spring came home, but these days, when machine-made carpets are mass-produced, and in the days of Chinese carpet prosperity and in the days of sanctions and the fluctuation of the dollar, Iranian carpets are not doing well.

In the past, the production of handmade and traditional carpets and rugs has been considered as one of the most lucrative and productive products in Hamedan, but now the carpet weaving in this province has declined and according to carpet market activists, there are no more weavers in Hamedan.

As carpet market activists say, it is exports that make Iranian carpets prosper, and the main reason for the boom in the Hamadan carpet market is the lack of carpet exports and the lack of skilled weavers.

In the carpet market of Hamedan, a group of carpet sellers who still give the color and smell of the distant past, I walk around and sit at the feet of the heart of the carpet market activists so that they can tell us about the situation of this market.