Wing Handicrafts Museums in Gilan Tourism Wing

The reopening of the museums of traditional arts and handicrafts in Gilan one after another and the opening of the first specialized museum of handicrafts in the country entitled “Rashti embroidery” in Rasht, the national city of traditional arts, has given Gilan tourism wings to travel to a new spring. To figure out the province.

According to IRNA, Gilan is a conference of culture, history, nature, and in the meantime, East Gilan, which is itself a historical city for thousands of years, succeeded in 1998 with the aroma of orange, tea and rice. And to record the fabric of silk threads with roles such as flower comb, carpet flower, kilim flower in a weave called night tent.

Although before the globalization of Ghasemabad Rudsar village, Fashtkeh Khomem village recorded the cool weaving of its mats in the national dimension, but after the globalization of the night weaving tent, Rasht, due to its embroidery (Rasht crochet), got its eye-catching silk colors. Shalma in the west of Gilan was able to record the scent of the forest in its wooden structures, the warmth of its sheep wool in the form of clothing and fabric design called shawl weaving and the scent of the scent of mud in a thousand pottery designs in the national dimension and in the form of tourism. International art stands.

Handicrafts are considered the cultural ambassadors of a land, and Rasht was nationally registered as a national village of embroidered mats in mid-January 1999, after the global registration of tent weaving in Qasemabad, Rudsar, and Fashtkeh Khomem as a national mat weaving village.

Rashti embroidery, the date of which is not recorded in the memoirs, was called “embroidery” and according to the helpless professor of this field, this name (Rashti embroidery) came from the time when a person named “Hossein Rashti” made a design and put his name on it. He engraved and the work reached an author and was published in a book and from then on he became known as Rashti Dozi; A very valuable example of Rasht embroidery is the tent of Mohammad Shah Qajar, which is now kept in the Cleveland Museum of Art in the United States.

Rasht embroidery (Rasht crochet) is one of the traditional embroideries of Iran and one of the handicrafts of Gilan, which has been registered in the list of national monuments of Iran – intangible (spiritual) cultural heritage; In this work, the background of the fabric is decorated with colorful silk threads in a very beautiful and eye-catching way.

Handicraft museums, strengthening heritage identity

The successive successes of Gilan’s handicrafts have slightly exposed the color and face of handicraft artists. “Art tourism” is introduced to domestic and foreign tourists as a route and destination, and a specialized specialized museum is defined for each of them.

In an interview with IRNA, Farzad Rashidi, involved in the inauguration of the Rasht Embroidery Museum, the first specialized museum of handicrafts in the country, said: “This museum is based on seven processes in the five-year plan of handicrafts in order to It has been created to achieve the prosperity of Gilan tourism in addition to strengthening the heritage of traditional arts and handicrafts.

He said: “We have tried to work program-oriented and in this regard we have examined the policy of successful countries in the field of handicrafts; Our macro approach is to use the capacity of samans and cultural concerned people, which has emerged in the discussion of the global registration of Qasemabad village with the focus on night weaving, as well as the national registration of the city and villages of Gilan.

The Deputy Minister of Handicrafts said: “Accordingly, processes were defined among the tactics of this deputy during a five-year process; These processes include participation, differentiation and heritage identification, global branding, national branding, promotion, training and protection of handicrafts, use of tourism capacity to develop handicrafts, trade and exports.

Rashidi stated: In this regard, 10 specialized-participatory museums for handicrafts have been defined in Gilan, six of which have been established or are underway in a global village, a city and four national villages with a focus on handicrafts.

He said: the establishment of specialized museums of handicrafts, in addition to introducing the history of handicrafts to tourists and people of the region, has caused managers to pay attention to traditional arts and handicrafts, so that this year a good amount has been allocated for buying old Rasht embroidered works by artists. Crafts are considered valid.

Rashidi stated: 78 handicrafts of Gilan have the national seal of authenticity and 7 of them have received the mark of international quality; 13 embroidered works of Gilan artists have received the seal of national authenticity and one work has received the mark of international authenticity.

New user; Protection of historical monuments

The head of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of Gilan announced the completion of the restoration of the Rasht Pergola building to set up a specialized museum of Rasht embroidery in this building and added: The basis of the plans made by this general office has been registered and introduced as the national city of embroidery.

Vali Jahani added: “According to this and with the cooperation of Gilan Deputy of Handicrafts, the restoration operation of the pergola building in Rasht, which includes repairing the roof, painting the building, repairing a number of columns, making a showcase and buying the necessary items to set up a specialized embroidery museum.” Obtaining the necessary permits from the Ministry ended with a credit of 3 billion rials.

He stated: “One of the effective methods in the protection and preservation of historical monuments is the definition of use based on new needs. So far, more than 220 historical monuments of government agencies and 30 other historical monuments have been identified by the Gilan Deputy of Cultural Heritage. Interaction with the owners of this building, to define a new use in order to protect and maintain valuable historical buildings in Gilan province.

At the beginning of his famous book, The History of Civilization, Will Durant states: Civilization is both a struggle and a competition, so how much better it is for each nation to have its own culture, government, economy, clothes, and songs; This is how Gilan is proud of its rich achievements and these days it is celebrating the globalization and nationalization of its tasteful and original handicrafts, and in the transition to specialization by defining 10 specialized museums of traditional arts and crafts, it is obvious. Has been.

Indigenous and handicrafts of any land is undoubtedly one of the honors of its nation, because it has deep and firm roots in the beliefs, customs, habits, customs, traditions and in general the spiritual culture of the society and has been a reflection of the culture and civilization of the tribes. Identity, more than anything, has a deep connection with the economy and livelihood of these communities, which in the shadow of the tourism industry has been able to keep them alive and continue their way of life.