Minab pottery is a relic of ancient pottery
After basket weaving, pottery has been called the oldest man-made industry.
Pottery, after mat weaving, is the oldest because the oldest known pottery ever found in East Africa is made from the base of a basket on which flowers are covered and cooked.
During archeological research and studies in Hormozgan province, the background of construction and existence of kilns for cooking pottery in the region reaches the third millennium BC (5 thousand years ago), during two seasons of archeological research and identification in Minab city. And a season of archeological excavations in this city, as well as the city of Rudan, the works obtained in this area, the tools and equipment of this field, the pottery wheel that moves by hand, etc., show the antiquity of pottery in this region.
Six thousand years before Christ, the first signs of the use of the furnace can be seen in the pottery industry, and the findings show that in three thousand five hundred years BC, the simple pottery wheel that moved by hand and Currently, its use is common in the villages of Shahvar (Minab) and Kalpurgan (Saravan). It has been used by potters and has revolutionized the industry.
Minab’s geographical location
Minab city is located approximately 100 km from Bandar Abbas and its area reaches 1350 km. The old name of this city was old Hormoz and it is one of the oldest and most ancient cities of Hormozgan province. The city was named the hub of Hormozgan’s handicrafts, and on Thursday, the city’s bazaar was one of the most important centers for trade in handicrafts and handicrafts in the past. It is not a bazaar and the few remaining bazaars were driven to the river to build a luxury complex on the site of the old bazaar!
Pottery, ignorance, mat weaving, traditional embroidery, embroidered burqa, cloak weaving and tent weaving are the most important handicrafts of Minab city and surrounding villages.
The pottery method in Minab is ancient and the process of producing pottery in this area is less similar than other areas. Perhaps the most significant of these theories is the primitive nature of production methods, designs, patterns and forms, so every day from a market point of view and sales are in a worse situation and someone else, especially the younger ones, want to produce this product. does not show.
Few potters in the region, whose number does not exceed two fingers, continue to insist on the same method and the same kind of production, and hope that they may one day experience that prosperity again. Their products mostly include simple pottery such as jars, peppers, incense burners, hookahs and hookahs. A pottery sculpture with an abstract form of a camel, called Strook, is also a product of Ibn al-Mahal, often made by elderly women.
