Shahrekord Felt Value Chain Document Can Help Boost This Craft Industry

Deputy Minister for Handicrafts and Traditional Arts at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts said: Drafting and completing the felt value chain document, as a sub-document of the National Handicrafts Development Plan, can help boost this craft industry.

According to Aria's Heritage Reporter, Barzin Zarghami said on the evening of Tuesday, October 21, during the opening ceremony of the second Shahrekord National Felt Festival: Felt, carpets, carpets, rugs, and locksmithing are among the most important handicrafts and traditional arts of Chaharmahal, Bakhtiari, and Shahrekord.

The Deputy Handicrafts and Traditional Arts Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Livelihood and Livestock Economy, climate, altitude, weather conditions played a role in the prosperity of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari felt, especially Shahrekord, and added: supporting creative activities in the field of handicrafts and traditional arts is on the agenda.

Zarghami declared Nemad as the narrator of the culture of Shahrekord, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari and the country and clarified: In the document on the value chain of handicrafts and traditional arts, it is supposed to help in improving the production and updating of all types of arts and crafts, and efforts should be made for marketing, sales, digital economy and the prosperity of handicrafts.

He reminded: The establishment and completion of the Shahrekord felt value chain should be on the agenda of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari and should be an achievement of the Shahrekord National Felt Festival.

The Deputy of Handicrafts and Traditional Arts of the Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts added: Events such as Shahrekord National Felt Festival can help to complete the chain and ecosystem of felt craft.

He said: In different seasons of the year, specialized meetings and exhibitions for Shahrekord felt should be held so that the economy of this art industry will be more prosperous.

Zarghami pointed out the need to update all kinds of handicrafts and traditional arts and emphasized: the new ideas of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari youth in the field of felt products production should be supported.

Pointing to the purchase of handicraft products and traditional arts with stories in foreign countries, he added: Felt is one of the most important crafts with stories in Iran that can be offered to world markets.

The second Shahrekord National Felt Festival with the participation of artists from 13 provinces of the country will be held at the permanent place of international exhibitions in Shahrekord until October 24, and the visiting hours of the exhibition and side programs of this festival have been announced from 15 to 22 every day.

Shahrekord was selected and introduced as "National City of Felt" in 2017.