Gilan World Village is still proud

The song of honor can still be heard between the beating of the warp and weft of Ghasem Abad Rudsar, which was registered in 1998 by the World Handicrafts Council as the World Village of Tent Weaving. This global village figured.

Shohreh Fakhr Janali was selected as one of the three entrepreneurial artists in the country; The news that IRNA led Gilan to find out the reason from this 35-year-old young tent weaving artist, who is also a master of public law.
Recently, the news of Gilani’s grandmother’s entrepreneurial superiority prompted IRNA to take a closer look at the voices of the women and girls of this village in the midst of the music video in the color night’s tent and the role of the flower shoulder, carpet Hear flowers, flower kilims, cedars, forty lights, bird designs, flower kilims, bush wheels and other designs up close.

Sarvar Abbaspour, a veteran artist from the global village of Qasemabad, who was selected as the country’s rural women entrepreneur, spoke to IRNA and said with power: “I weaved color by color and recorded the ancient originality of art in every corner of the world I worked for 50 people.
Tent weaving is a kind of local fabric weaving in 2,000-year-old designs made from cotton, wool and silk yarns – which in the past more and more women wore when they were paddy – in modern times this type of fabric with New applications such as bedspreads and tablecloths and the like are included in girls’ dowries.

The village of Qasem Abad, whose originality, color and antiquity of weaving tents have also opened the feet of foreign tourists to this village – which used to have a world-famous local dress – was established on July 4, 1997 by the Strategic Council for Selecting Towns and Villages Melli was registered as a national night weaving tent village and was nominated for the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2019 for global registration, and in February 1998, it was registered as a world night weaving tent village by the World Crafts Council.
This time, Shohreh Fakhr Janali was selected as one of the three entrepreneurial handicraft artists in the country and was honored nationally for her spontaneous activities with the help of the youth of the village.
In an interview with IRNA, Fakhr Janali said: “In the field of social entrepreneurship, I encouraged the activity and the new generation to be proud of what they have and to encourage them to work in the field of night weaving; I created a workshop and emphasized the content and stories of the night tent so that tourists can see and get acquainted with the designs, even if they do not have a purchase.
He continues: I worked in the field of jurisprudence for five years, but I saw that working in a world full of originality and full of ancestral colors is more attractive to me and more meaningful; As our elders die, it is better to introduce the new generation and connect them with their original past.
He continues: “First, we checked what we had and saw that the originality of Qasemabad is famous for its night weaving tents, so we decided to collect the garbage of the village first;” After that, we started to design the walls of the village with old signs of weaving tents, and this was well received, so that the old women of the village said after these paintings, “You have revived us,” and from memories and stories. They told us about their woven designs.

Fakhr Janali says: “We held a workshop where we invited tourists to weave stories of tent weaving designs, and little by little the new generation was encouraged;” They got help from mothers’ art and entered this field with all their new ideas.
He explains: “Our village was full of antiquity, but it did not have an ID, and we started to present designs to identify distant objects, and by implementing various designs, we started weaving tents on modern clothes, and little by little.” At least, we have expanded this design to used items such as bags and other items, so that now the fabric of the night tent is no longer known only as a fabric of four houses, but today the night tent becomes global with its designs and stories.
He says: “Then we started to hold a traditional bazaar only for the products of Qasem Abad village, which had very good feedback; We produced less waste and sold products without plastic, and these activities were carried out, and due to the history of night weaving and silk weaving in the village, and with the help of Qasemabad officials, it became one of the globalization options and was finally registered globally.
He goes on to say that all these activities made the people of this village proud of their ancestral possessions; They showed the patches; They hung their products on the porches and turned their houses into a tent-weaving exhibition; And we also taught the new generation to learn this art of “baked bread” and to make a living from this industry like the predecessors of this land.

“Corona has dismantled bazaars, exhibitions and home visits, so we asked some artists to shop in the village and introduce guests directly to the shops,” says Fakhr. These stores have been able to contribute a little to the village economy if efforts are made and a shopping center is established in the village where artists work, which will help strengthen and develop the economy of this global village.
He continues: “I am currently taking a nature tourism guide course, so that if a party comes, we can spend time with it, and if tourism enters Qasemabad as a global village, there will be four of us to guide the tourist as a local town.”

Deputy of Handicrafts of Gilan General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts says: Tourism is one of the ways of economic development without relying on oil source and today traditional arts and handicrafts of Gilan can be used as a factor for development in the field of tourism. Become a specialized species.
In an interview with IRNA, Farzad Rashidi, stating that the night weaving of “Ghasem Abad Rudsar village” is one of the handicrafts of Gilan as one of the 38 world works of the country, adds: And we are employment and also creating social vitality for the people.
He said that the development of handicrafts and traditional arts in Gilan province will preserve the local identity and currency, regarding the selection of Shohreh Fakhr Janali as the selected entrepreneur of the country, he said: Under the chairmanship of Pouya Mahmoudian, Deputy Minister of Handicrafts and Traditional Arts of the Ministry of Heritage, Culture, Tourism and Handicrafts, held in recent days, was honored as one of the three selected artists in the country.
It is worth mentioning that the international event of Iran Handicrafts Week was held from 20 to 26 June 1400 for the first time in the field of handicrafts and traditional arts with the aim of introducing handicrafts, villages and global cities of handicrafts in cyberspace and its closing ceremony was held on 16 July.
31 works of handicrafts and traditional arts of Gilan have received the seal of authenticity in the last 10 years; In 1992, about $ 700,000 worth of handicrafts were exported from Gilan province outside the country, while with the global registration of night tent weaving, there was a big leap in the export of these products, and in 1999, handicraft exports increased to 2,321 million. It reached one thousand dollars and night tent weaving, mat weaving and wood products were the largest exports of handicrafts.