The magic of Iranian carpets and Shiraz Khatam/Iranian handicrafts exhibition in Doha
The works of inlay, maraq, gilding, enameling, calligraphy tables and Iranian carpets in the handicrafts exhibition in Doha’s Katara tourist village have aroused the admiration and admiration of the 2022 World Cup spectators and foreign tourists in Qatar.
According to IRNA’s Handicraft Reporter, the World Cup is no longer just football matches and competitions, when the nations of the world wait for four years to gather again, they no longer celebrate only football, but everything from culture, art, thought and history. Whether they inherit from the ancient times or the modern times, they bring together to turn this sports party into a lively cultural festival to renew friendship and peace.
The countries participating in the World Cup will put together original and magnificent works of art from visualization to handicrafts in the form of a unique exhibition, so that outside the green rectangle, beyond 90 minutes of football, they will be an excuse to admire the glory of the civilization and art of the nations. With the start of this gathering, all the confrontations that often brought politicians and economic players face to face in the political and economic scene, will be put aside for a month, and everyone will forget the charms of football and get to know more about the culture of the nations.
The 2022 World Cup in Doha, which is taking place for the first time in a Muslim country in the West Asian region and in the neighborhood of Iran, is the best opportunity to introduce the great Iran. The tourist village of Katara Doha has been established and will continue until the last days of December.
Now the Qatar World Cup is not limited to the magic of the green rectangle and has cultural-artistic aspects as well. The host country of the World Cup has provided an opportunity for different countries to display their cultural-artistic achievements in an exhibition.
Sending tourist guides to Doha
The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts to take advantage of the opportunity of the Qatar World Cup 2022 and with the aim of presenting a proud image and introducing the capabilities of one of the oldest civilizations in the world, which contains a hidden treasure of art, beauty and culture, at the same time as the Handicrafts Exhibition. Tourism in the form of a group of 12 people at the same time as playing Iran, England, as a member of the tourism family, went to Qatar to introduce Iranian art to foreign tourists as best as possible.
These tourist guides, who returned to Iran today, December 9, during a 10-day visit to Iran’s booth at the handicrafts exhibition in Katara cultural tourism village in Doha, described the works of traditional arts and crafts for tourists and those interested in the culture and art of Iranian civilization.
These guides have appeared with uniform clothes and Isfahan calligraphy design, and other guides are supposed to be sent until the end of the World Cup.
Exhibition of Iran from Khatam to Saffron
Iran’s booth is decorated with handicrafts of famous Iranian artists, and a number of artists have also held embroidering and gilding workshops. All kinds of rugs and carpets from Tabriz and Isfahan are displayed in the carpet booth, and pictures of Iran’s attractions are also displayed on the booth screen. Promotional World Cup gifts are also offered to visitors in this booth.
Carpets, Khatam, Maraq, gilding, enameling, calligraphy tables, pistachio and saffron are among the items presented in this exhibition, which, of course, are not allowed to be officially sold and are only displayed to visitors for introduction and order registration. Other works of Different regions of Iran will be added to Iran’s booth in the remaining days until the World Cup. Live production of artworks by prominent masters, performance art programs by the art group is another part of this exhibition.
The amazement of foreign tourists from Iranian art
One of the tour guides was present at this exhibition, he says about the amazement of the World Cup spectators and the good reception of the foreign tourists in Doha from the Iranian pavilion; When they saw a fine Iranian silk carpet, which is very thin and woven with stunning delicacy, they felt admiration, but when they turned the carpet over and saw the back, they realized that it was a double-sided silk carpet. Is! We could clearly see the surprise in their faces.
“Every country with its cultural and civilizational symbols is present in the Katara tourism village in Doha, and almost all countries had the performance of local music and dances, but Iran is one of the countries that has the largest and most beautiful capacity of its handicrafts and handicrafts. This village has come
This tourist guide says: In the other corner, Tamma Khatam furniture booth of Shiraz has given a special glory to the Iran booth with unparalleled elegance and attracted the attention of all tourists. The live performance of Ostad Kaveh, who has a first-class artistic badge in the field of painting, also attracted the admiration of foreign tourists. Football spectators and foreign tourists who came to the tourist village of Katara on the east coast of the West Gulf and the Pearl of Qatar in Doha, when they reached Iran’s booth, they talked about pure Iranian football and the great works of Iranian art. Pure Iranian art shone brightly in Doha 2022.