شهرها و روستاهای صنایع دستی

A cool north-western city near the Caspian watershed, associated with Shahsavan flatweaves, bags and felt.

A Gulf port with a preserved quarter of coral-stone merchant houses, palm-fibre crafts and wooden boat building along the coast.

A carpet city in the north-west whose covered bazaar complex is one of the largest in the country and remains a wholesale centre for rugs.

A weaving district east of Tabriz whose large geometric medallion carpets are among the most recognisable Iranian village types.

A town on the Tabriz–Ardabil road whose name is associated with long narrow runners in camel-coloured wool.

The market city of Fars, where nomadic and village weaving from the surrounding tribes is traded alongside urban inlay, metal and khatam work.

A town on the Isfahan–Shiraz road known for carved wooden utensils and for a recognisable village rug type.

A town south of Shiraz in the Qashqai migration country, used as a reference point for Fars tribal weaving.

The Caspian provincial capital, whose name is attached to rasht-duzi, a bold appliqué and chain-stitch embroidery on woollen ground.

A stepped mountain village in Gilan where rooftops serve as streets, with woollen knitting, wooden ware and honey sold along its lanes.

A Caspian tea town in Gilan, with silk history, wooden ware and basketry alongside its tea gardens.

A city on the northern steppe edge, the market for Turkmen weaving, silver and felt from the surrounding plain.

A pottery town north-west of Hamadan where a large share of households is reported to work in clay, glazing and kiln firing.

A western highland city that acts as the market for a wide belt of village carpet and flatweave weaving, and for the pottery of Lalejin.

A Hamadan province city whose name appears in the rug trade for village weaving, with vineyards in the surrounding district.

A walnut-growing town in Hamadan province with woodwork, village weaving and leather in its market.

A southern coastal-hinterland city with palm-fibre work, pottery and a long-running Thursday market.

The main southern port, where Persian Gulf textile, embroidery and palm-fibre traditions meet trade goods from across the water.

The largest island in the Persian Gulf, with wooden boat building, palm-fibre work and embroidery in its villages.

The best documented craft city in Iran, with workshops for inlay, engraved metal, enamel, miniature painting and tile clustered around one central square.

A desert-edge city associated with silk and velvet weaving, rose water distilling and, historically, some of the most admired Persian tilework and carpets.

A mountain town on the Kashan–Isfahan road, known for its fourteenth-century shrine complex and for pottery and fruit production in the surrounding valleys.

A red-earth mountain village known for its distinctive dress, hand-knitted and woven textiles, and dried fruit.

A town south of Isfahan with a long-standing pottery and tile industry supplying the region.

A south-eastern city known for pateh needlework on woollen ground cloth and for a long carpet-weaving tradition.

A southern Kerman city associated with Afshar-attributed weaving and with kilim and bag faces from the surrounding district.

A garden town south-east of Kerman, known for the Shah Nematollah Vali shrine and its tile and woodwork.

A mountain town with a large surviving mud-brick citadel, used as a study site for earthen building crafts.

A date-growing oasis city in south-eastern Kerman, its ancient citadel badly damaged in the 2003 earthquake and under long-term restoration.

A western city on the old road to Baghdad, with giveh footwear, village weaving and metalwork in its bazaar.

A Khuzestan city built around an ancient hydraulic system, with regional weaving, mat work and boat-related trades nearby.

The Khuzestan capital on the Karun, the market for Arab and Bakhtiari weaving, reed work and river trades.

The Kurdish provincial capital, historically linked to fine single-wefted rugs known in the trade as Senneh, and to klash footwear from the surrounding region.

A Kurdish highland town whose name is attached in the carpet trade to exceptionally heavy, densely packed rugs.

The capital of Lorestan, the market for Lori and Bakhtiari weaving, felt and pastoral craft from the Zagros.

A Lorestan city with copper working and village weaving, on the road between the western highlands and Hamadan.

A north-eastern city in mixed Kurdish, Turkmen and Turkic country, with village weaving, felt and silver in its market.

A former Safavid capital between Tehran and Zanjan, with calligraphy and manuscript heritage and a restored historic bazaar.

A pilgrimage city south of Tehran whose twentieth-century silk carpet workshops gave it a distinct place in the carpet trade.

The largest city of the north-east and a major pilgrimage destination, where soapstone carving, turquoise setting and Khorasan carpets are traded at scale.

A historic Khorasan city, the source of Iranian turquoise and an important reference point for early Islamic pottery.

A southern Khorasan city whose name appears in the rug trade for regional weaving, with saffron farming in the surrounding district.

A desert-edge city on the Tehran–Mashhad road, known for cotton and silk weaving traditions and for regional carpets.

A city in the Sistan basin in the far east, associated with reed and mat work from the wetlands and with Sistani weaving.

The provincial capital in the south-east, the main market for Baluch needlework, mirror-worked dress and pile weaving.

A desert-edge city in the east, associated with fine regional carpets and with saffron and barberry farming.

The capital and the country's largest craft market, where the output of every province is traded and the main national collections are held.

A north-western lake-side city where Kurdish, Azeri and Assyrian craft traditions overlap in the regional market.

A north-western city on the old caravan road to Anatolia, with village weaving and felt production in its hinterland.

A desert city of adobe lanes and wind towers, long associated with silk and cotton weaving, termeh, and the zilu flatweave of its surrounding towns.

A desert town north-west of Yazd associated with zilu flatweaving, pottery and the historic caravan route infrastructure.

A desert town north-west of Yazd with adobe architecture, weaving and pistachio farming.

A mountain-edge town south-west of Yazd, with orchards, Zoroastrian heritage sites and small-scale weaving.

A north-western city long identified with knife making, malileh silver filigree and charoq footwear.