What is an Inlay?

Iranian traditional arts are folk arts that have long been part of people’s lives and have become inseparable in part.
These arts have remained largely unchanged from the past to the present and if left unnoticed, they will gradually be forgotten.
Inlay is one of the valuable arts of the East. There is not much information about the termination of the termination, since the raw material of the termination is mostly glue and wood, and these two materials disappear over time. However, in places that have been sanctified and, as a result, well maintained, we find endings that are two hundred to three hundred years old.
The most important center of the termination of the world today is Iran. Although in India, Syria, Iraq, and Palestine there is the art of embroidery, but it is not as old and delicate as it is in Iran.
Iran’s endings at international and international exhibitions have always been top priority.
In museums around the world, there are various types of Iran’s finest emblems, including the embossed chessboard held at the Benaki Museum in Athens and among the finest.
Khatam is the Safavid era. Perhaps the best example of this art in the present era is Khatami’s desk that won the Gold Medal at the Brussels Exhibition (Year 2). In the art of finishing, various woods such as ivory, bone, rice, and sometimes gold and silver are used.
They first cut wood, bone, or metal into triangular prisms of al-Qa’ida and put them together so that their cross-sections have regular geometric shapes, since the general shape of most endings is geometric motifs.
They are then glued together on a thin sheet of wood, and finally shown on various objects such as tables, chairs, boxes, frames, and so on. Recently, linear endings are also made in which words such as the name of God appear as the role.
In expensive trimmings, the metallic parts are made of gold or silver and are used in making ivory instead of bone. This art has remained unchanged for the past two hundred years and the old and contemporary pieces are not much different.

 

Inlay materials

Wood

Betel, ebony, jujube, herring, freckle, bokeh, orange and swordfish.

Metal

Gold or silver wire, copper, brass, aluminum.

bone

Camel or horse bone, elephant ivory, artificial bone

green color

This color is made from a combination of nadir, copper extract and vinegar. Cut bones in a container containing colored solution and expose them to sunlight for six months. Nowadays, since it is difficult to make camel bone, they use orange wood instead of camel bone and use a green dye to dye it.
Ingredients and tools include: Grate, Tight, Saw, Sohan, Fargar, Gonia, Hammer, Gas Slicer, Cave, Press.

Khatam lubrication

Basically the surface of an inlay is oiled for two reasons: the inlay and its protection against moisture, heat and cold. In the past, polished or sandalwood oil was used. Later used Havilox oil and nowadays use polyester.