Craft places

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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