The lights of handicrafts have been turned off and gone!
A handicraft expert, referring to the stagnation of the market in this area during the Crohn’s days, said: It seems that the handicrafts have been turned off and from time to time only news about loans and holding workshops are heard.
Fereydoun Mirzaloo – Expert and former director general of the Office of Training and Support of Handicrafts Production on the situation of the handicrafts market and artists in this field in the days when many are suffering from livelihoods, referring to loans provided by the Deputy Handicrafts to help activists These loans are a kind of help in their own right, but the help may run out for a few months and then the artists get into trouble again, he said.
He said that in order to help the current situation of handicrafts, the sales market should be relatively correct, noting that if the announced statistics are true and we have 500,000 producers, now all these people need a sales market to survive. We are not looking for very large markets, but at least there are markets where artists can solve their livelihood problems.
The expert on handicrafts stated that the sales of handicraft products have already decreased: in such a situation, a suitable solution must be found. In general, some producers who are more familiar with the market have relatively good sales and sell better, but some rural artists do not buy their products and need help. Meanwhile, if we refer to the statistics of 500,000 manufacturers, I think even 2% of them can not work in the current situation.
Mirzalo continued: It seems that the key to the handicrafts has been turned off and from time to time only news is heard about loans and holding workshops. Personally, I am really worried about the fate of Iranian handicrafts after these difficult days.
