There are 286 handicrafts in Iran
Hossein Yavari, a researcher in the field of culture and art, said in the program Economy around culture: Iranian handicrafts are part of traditional Iranian arts. If we look back to the distant past, you will see that the most brilliant periods of handicrafts after the religion of Islam were the Seljuk and Safavid periods, ie the fifth to seventh centuries AH, as well as the eleventh, twelfth and part of the thirteenth century AH.
He informed about the existence of 286 handicrafts in Iran and said: carpet is the most important handicraft in Iran.
He stated: Iranians have always been aware of the very influential role of handicrafts and traditional arts in general in the economic life and cultural life of Iran.
Khatereh Ostad Rezaei, the head of the Tehran Province Handicrafts Cooperatives Union, also said in the program: The issue of pathology in the field of mobile handicrafts will be followed in two ways.
He added: The issue that is usually resisted by the officials related to Iran’s handicrafts is the issue of accepting the correct changes, or in other words, raising the spirit of criticism to improve the management situation and the executive field.
The head of the Tehran Province Handicrafts Cooperatives Union said: This issue is one of the most difficult and energetic issues for people.
He added: Manufacturers need to create and prepare a series of basic structures in order to have the right production to lead to the economy for them. This open structure has two parts. The first part is the issues of supporting production and the second part is professional and in fact planning. It is technical.
Professor Rezaei stated: The production support section includes legal issues such as workshop fees, insurance, assets, energy portfolio, social security, supply of raw materials and everything that needs to be paid for so that production work enters the production cycle and is in progress. This has an unstructured dilemma.
He said: The second issue is the professional view and in fact the technical planning, which should be the technology, technical knowledge, experience, records and history that people need to produce in the field of handicrafts and traditional arts in the system and at the same time. Now let’s pay attention to it.
The head of the Tehran Handicrafts Industries Cooperatives Union added: Unfortunately, technology is opposed, because there is no knowledge of the amount and introduction of new technology and technologies, and it is also resisted by the sales system and market network because the structure, procedure and corridor and the correct layout of this structure are defined. does not have.
Crafts need to be branded
Shahrokh Pouri, an activist in the field of handicrafts, said: The sale and livelihood of artists is the main problem of Iranian handicrafts today.Branding is very important in this field because handicrafts form the cultural identity of the Iranian nation.
The activist in the field of handicrafts stated: The production capacity of handicrafts in Iran is very high, so these traditional works should be branded.
He added: Iran is the first in the world in terms of handicraft diversity, as well as in terms of practicality and beauty.
Pouri reminded: handicrafts are the cultural identity of the Iranian nation, and while branding, this identity should be redoubled in order to produce in a traditional way, as well as to preserve and revive traditional arts in Iran.