HANDICRAFTS
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Centuries of Craft, Carried Forward
ESPAD HAND brings nine traditional Persian handicraft arts to a global audience — each piece hand-made by skilled artisans, carrying techniques and motifs passed down for generations. From copper enameling to silver filigree, every craft here is a living piece of history.
Burnish
Copper Enameling Burnish is a unique combination of pumice designs and copper colors. This beautiful handicraft on your desk at work or home makes a memorable piece for your guests.
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Enameling
Minakari Vitreous Enameling is an art derived from the essence of humanity, impregnated with Iranian multi-thousand-year-old culture. Its birthplace is Isfahan, and its lineage traces back to the Achaemenid kings.
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Turquoise
A turquoise product — jewellery or a container made of brass, silver, nickel or bronze copper — has particles of turquoise coated onto its surface in mosaic form, giving it a truly distinctive effect.
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Inlay
Inlay (Khatam) is the art of decorating objects in mosaic-like shapes formed from small triangles. Its regular geometric patterns are created by placing these triangles next to one another with painstaking precision.
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Filigree
Filigree (Malileh-Kari) is a branch of metal art made from thin silver and copper wire. This delicate craft is closely linked with traditional graphics and Arabesque designs, worked into narrow, ornate products.
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Miniature
Miniature Painting is a small, handmade oil painting — whether a book illustration or a piece on camel bone. The bright, pure coloring of the Persian miniature is one of its most striking, unmistakable features.
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Textile Printing
Textile Printing (Qalam-Kari) is one of the oldest crafts in the Middle East, at the height of its fame for centuries — customary painting on fabric that flourished in Iran under Mongol-era patronage.
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Engraving
Ghalamzani is the Persian art of hand-engraving intricate designs onto metals such as copper, brass, silver and gold. Isfahan is its main centre, and its artistry is a glorious, undeniable mark of tradition.
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Termeh
Termeh is a fine, delicate cashmere fabric woven from two series of threads — warp and woof — made of wool or silk, in the original and traditional designs of the Middle East.
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