IRAN ART EXHIBITION: THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF IRAN IN GLASS INDUSTRY About 250 types of diverse hand-made products are created by proficient craftsmen in Iran. Kilim, carpet, marquetry and woodcutting are among the Persian crafts, which have become very popular in the world. However, very little is known about Persian art of glass blowing and […]

IRAN ART EXHIBITION: ABOUT TECHNIQUES OF GLASS ART Glass art is an art of making and decorating utensils using melting glass dough. glass is breakable and limpid. In this post, we describe the stages of the “blowing technique”: Glass art is an art that first heat the glass to make it soft and semi-liquid. Then […]

IRAN ART EXHIBITION: GLASS MAKING AND ITS HISTORY IN PERSIA Glass blowing was invented in the Syro-Palestinian region during the Parthian period in the mid-first century B.C.E. and quickly spread from there to neighboring regions. Due to this invention, which probably reached Mesopotamia in the first century C.E., glassware could be produced more easily and […]

IRAN ART EXHIBITION: GLASS BLOWING IN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES At the time of the Arab conquest in the seventh century A.D., glassmaking had flourished in Egypt and western Asia for more than two millennia and glassmakers in those regions went about their business despite the momentous political, social, and religious changes taking place around them. Glassmakers […]