Isfahan Enamel Art in Iran
The art of enameling is one of the handicrafts of Isfahan that is done on metal. In the art of enameling, traditional motifs and designs are carefully and unobtrusively shaped. These designs and decorations can be a very good and beautiful source of inspiration for designing and decorating Iranian clothes, and this is one of the capabilities and delicacies of art that can be linked to two or more disciplines.
In recent years, the art of enameling has moved away from its original and special place due to lack of study and research on it. To reduce this gap, it is necessary to make this art more practical and accessible. On the other hand, the design and decoration of clothes, which has been removed from the Iranian identity in recent years, will be established in its original position with this link.
The land of Iran has always had a very special and admirable position in terms of art; In particular, Iran’s handicrafts, especially Isfahan’s handicrafts, have this feature.
Handicrafts are a collection of “arts and crafts” that mainly use local raw materials and perform some of the basic steps of production by hand and hand tools to prepare and manufacture products in each unit, the artistic taste and intellectual creativity of the craftsman to Manifestation is manifested, and this factor is the main distinguishing feature of such products from similar machine and factory products.
The art of enameling is one of the pure and eye-catching crafts that, at first glance, its beautiful colors, and in later views, its designs and designs attract the attention of every viewer. Its designs on the vessels have become so cohesive and cohesive that it is as if they are spinning around a axis with a specific purpose and culminating at one point.
The art of enameling is one of the aspects of creating beauty and art impregnated with love and fire. Since clothing is also the most prominent cultural symbol and the most important and distinct ethnic manifestation and the fastest moving cultural symbol, it is rapidly influenced by the phenomena of cultural acceptability among various human societies. Some even believe that cultural domination and domination take place primarily through the transmission of clothing, and that even by changing the clothing of a society, the type of livelihood and its mode of production can be changed, and changes in the structure and social life. That created society.
Since ornaments on clothing and the use of pure Iranian motifs and designs have received less attention, and given that the status of the art of enameling and more and more practical use of handicrafts over time has been neglected, the study of the art of enameling and its use in clothing decoration can be a way to Represent it to today’s artists in Iranian clothing design.