Handicrafts are a kind of craft in which decorative and functional accessories are made only by using hands or various simple tools. They are often referred to as the traditional method of making various goods and tools.
The most important principle in this craft and all related contents is mastery and high experience. All kinds of handicrafts are often considered culturally or spiritually remarkable. It is important to note that products from mass production or machines are not considered handicrafts.
Not every work, industry, and product can easily be considered handicrafts. To be considered handicrafts, it must have certain features.
Including these features can refer to the following:
playing the cultural and identity role of handicrafts to a country (cultural burden of the nation) , no need for significant investments against other industrial fields, the ability to create the basis and develop it in different areas (city, Villages, or nomadic communities) , ease of establishing handicrafts production centers, having high added value compared to other industries, self-sufficiency and relying on high quality domestic raw materials, helping economic growth and development and also maintaining the sufficient basis for handicrafts export.
The key point that distinguishes handicrafts from any other hand creations is the purpose of producing them. Handicrafts are products and accessories that are supposed to be used and become old, wicked, and so on. Handicrafts are also used as more than a simple decorative product.
handicrafts are often considered the cultural and traditional works of a nation. Since they are considered as part of the requirements of people’s daily lives. Although arts and other hand designs are more of an entertaining activity and a perfect way to present a series of creative techniques.
The practical aspects of different types of handicrafts have many overlap due to the similarity between them. According to the connected
organization reports, there are 370 different fields in this craft in Iran, which fall into 24 different and diverse categories.
Among the Iranian handicrafts types that have been considered international, we can mention handmade carpets. This type of Iranian handicraft represents the cultural and artistic potency of Iran in the world.
Perform basic production steps by hand or tool.
• Creative, significant and effective presence in the field of manufacturing productions
• Supply of raw materials from domestic sources
• Cultural burden (using native drawings and colors)
• Lack of similarity of manufactured products with each other
• Having high added value
• Ability to develop in numerous areas
• Ability to transfer master techniques to student
• The Iranian handicrafts types are located in all countries of the world in terms of diversity.
Carpets which include the followings:
• Carpet: All wool rugs, silk wool, silk flowers, silk, all silk
• Kilim: double (in simple types, weaving, and flat weaving), one-sided (in sumac, screw, and needle weaving), one-sided with a combination of carpet and kilim textures such as Ilam embossing kilim.
• Drugget
Machinery hand-woven (or traditional textile) which includes the following:
• Jajim and Jajim like (Such as: JajimChe, Metkazin kilims, bags, waves)
• Clothes
• Luxurious clothes such as gold, velvet, embossed velvet, cashmere, assets, silk fabric of rare Kalat texture, silk fabric of Ghasem Abad Rudsar, and shawl
• Other clothes such as a robe, burq canvas, mottaqal, Irmak, shamd, ihram, rug, curtain and…
Types of traditional needlework include:
• Sewing on fabric: needle embroidery, Pate embroidery, steam embroidery, embroidery, ribbon embroidery, tapestry embroidery, Clapton embroidery, Zoroastrian embroidery, crochet embroidery
• Zoroastrian embroidery
• Passementerie
• Sewing inside the fabric: embroidered springs, embroidered buttons
• Add other materials to the fabric: embroidered braid, embroidered ten, embroidered cocoon, embroidered ajideh, embroidered beads, sequined embroidery, patchwork embroidery.
Metal arts that include:
• Metalworking, metal engraving process, engraving, latticework, tapestry work, goldsmithing, dumpling (such as gilding, silver stamping, copper stamping), forging, casting, ornamentation, composite metal works
Enamel which includes:
• Painting enamel, decorative enamel, and house enamel
Pottery that includes:
• Unglazed pottery (such as hand pottery, carving, pottery relief)
• Glazed pottery such as slurry pottery, glazing, painting on glaze, painting underglaze
Glass that includes:
Wood related arts that include:
Stone related arts including:
• Masonry
• Stone carving, stone marquetry , stone engraving, inlay
• Stone lattice
• Turquoise
Painting that includes:
• Painting books and marqas (Such as: gilding, poetry and flowers and chickens)
• Traditional design (Such as: carpet and kilim design, pen design, nail drawings, knitting)
Traditional prints that include:
• Printing on paper (stone)
• Printing on fabric (Such as: pen, hat or batik, knotted or asset)
Mat weaving that includes:
• Bory weaving, chiffon weaving, bamboo weaving
• felt
• Embroidered fur
Leather works that include:
• Leathering and engraving on leather
Traditional coloring that includes:
• Plant, animal, mineral, chemical, compound dyes
Traditional dyeing includes:
• Traditional dyeing on different surfaces such as paper, wood, wool, silk, cotton
All the Iranian handicrafts types have great material and ethical values. however, it should be noticed that not much compassion is given to their packaging. It can be said that only a few of activists in the field of handicrafts have gone beyond the traditional supply. These people have taken modern approaches in presenting them. In the continuation of this article, we conduct to acquaint you with the importance of handicrafts packaging. Stay with us until the end of the article.
The importance of handicrafts packaging
In the following, we will examine the importance of handicrafts packaging. Since the handicrafts are typically bought as gifts, they need packaging that suits them. If craft activists do not think about packaging, they can never globalize the industry so that is the main reason of attending to the Importance of handicrafts packaging issue.
Nor can they think of handicrafts export. As in the export of products, one of the success factors is quality packaging that fits the product.
When we decide to buy a product ourselves or as a gift for others from the market, the first thing we pay attention to is its appearance. Especially in cases where beauty or health (especially in the case of food) comes first.
But when it comes to selecting a product or commodity as a gift, apart from its practicality, the way it is presented or the packaging is considerably important. For this reason, the importance of handicrafts packaging is extremely high.
Handicrafts packaging will increase the outward and inward value of our gift when giving. The packaging has an undeniable impact on our audience.
The quality, model, and color that we choose for their packaging, suggest our feeling or meaning to the audience. Accordingly, with the ideal choice, we can present our personal, organizational feelings or goals to the audience.
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Honareirani Trading Group started working in Tehran in 2021 under the management of Ms. Zohreh Mokhtari in the field of exporting handicraft products, including turquoise inlaying, tapestry, copper processing, enameling, and Marquetry.
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