Here's what the Iran nuclear deal means for Persian rugs
A 2010 embargo on Iranian-made rugs has meant tough times for sellers who found their carpets caught up in a clash of diplomats, geopolitics and nuclear brinkmanship. This summer’s landmark international nuclear agreement, however, has paved the way for importing rugs once again in what was once Iran’s largest foreign market.
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Interview with Said Ahmadi • Rebuilding the World Heritage City • Bam • IRAN
This is an interview with Said Ahmadi who worked in Bam during the rebuilding process after the earthquake.
'When I arrived there, everything was destroyed. There were bodies on the streets. Everything had collapsed. Bam city, the city that we know now, dates back to 2500 years before. A very beautiful, big castle, a mud-brick castle. Everyone knows Bam as a symbol of earthen architecture in Iran.
Some experts argued that we have to rebuild the Bam citadel as it was - with the same materials and same methods - just keep the tradition keep the authenticity. Other believed that we have to reconstruct Bam with new materials and totally rebuild it. The middle decision between these two groups was to rebuild Bam by using traditional materials but using modern methods.
With the knowledge we have now about mud brick, soil an clay - we can make the best mud brick possible. Everything in Bam is still made with mud bricks.
Mud brick technology hasn't changed so much until now. First they take the mud and put it in a timber frame. Then they remove the timber, put it under the sun to dry it. It's just that simple.
The scientific part is concerned with the kind of soil we use, and the type of additives and how we put them together. We add things to the mud brick - usually straw - to increase the resistance of the bricks to crack. German experts from Dresden University used new materials in getting mud bricks to stick to the wall such as fiberglass. The Iranian part used a palm tree rope to use in building domes.
Archeologists found a lot of things. Before the earthquake everybody thought it maybe dates back 2,500 years ago but they didn't know what had happened inside the walls, underneath the houses.
Now you can see a beautiful, clean city, alleys, the bazaar, buildings. You can see several workshops with laborers and masters who are actuality rebuilding and restoring the destroyed buildings. You can see a lot of scaffolding who are working to rebuild Bam.
All Iranians were united about rebuilding Bam - and also the world. If everybody wants it, the huge destruction, the huge disaster, could be solved, if everybody works together.
Kerman an Exotic City Full of Surprises
Kerman is among the archaic cities of Iran the name of which has been mentioned in the inscriptions of Darius the Great, in Shahnameh, the great collection of epic poems by Ferdowsi, and in Marco Polo’s annals. The city has been both on Spice Road, having had trading with India and on the Silk Road with ties with China. That is why now the city is home to castles, bazaars, caravanserais, hammams, icehouses, water reservoirs, and beautiful traditional houses. Kerman is also famous for the women’s hand-woven carpets and the desert men’s grown pistachio.
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Masjed-i Agha Bozorg Mosque (Kashan - كاشان Iran / ایران )
Kashan (en persan : كاشان) est une ville d'Iran située entre Téhéran et Ispahan.
Elle fut renommée au Moyen Âge pour ses ateliers de céramique. En effet, le nom de la ville trouve son origine dans le nom persan désignant le carreau de céramique, kashi. Kashan est la première des larges oasis le long de la route entre Qom et Kerman le long des déserts dans le centre de l'Iran. Son charme est donc principalement dû au contraste entre les immensités des déserts et la verdure des oasis bien entretenues.
Le sultan Malik Shah Ier de la dynastie seldjoukide y fit construire une forteresse au XIe siècle. Les murs de cette dernière sont encore visibles aujourd'hui au centre de la ville.
Le célèbre jardin Bagh-e Fin, où le chancellier de Nasseredin Shah, Amir Kabir fut assassiné en 1852 se trouve à Kashan.
L'astronome al-Kachi qui travailla avec le prince-astronome Oulough Beg à Samarcande au XIVe siècle était originaire de cette ville.
Kashan a subi un tremblement de terre en 1778.
Kashan is a city in the province of Isfahan, Iran. It had an estimated population of 272,359 in 2005 [1].
The etymology of the city name comes from the Persian word Kashi, which translates into the English word tile. Kashan is the first of the large oases along the Qom-Kerman road which runs along the edge of the central deserts of Iran. Its charm is thus mainly due to the contrast between the parched immensities of the deserts and the greenery of the well-tended oasis.
Archeological discoveries in the Sialk Hillocks which lie 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Kashan reveal that this region was one of the primary centers of civilization in pre-historic ages. Hence Kashan dates back to the Elamite period of Iran. The Sialk ziggurat still stands today in the suburbs of Kashan after 7000 years. The three wise men who followed the star that guided them to Bethlehem to witness the nativity of Jesus, as recounted in the Bible, reportedly came from Kashan. (Some sources however claim their origin to be elsewhere)
Sultan Malik Shah I of the Seljukian dynasty ordered the building of a fortress in the middle of Kashan in the 11th century. The fortress walls, called Ghal'eh Jalali still stand today in central Kashan.
Kashan was also a leisure vacation spot for Safavi Kings. Bagh-e Fin (Fin Garden), specifically, is one of the most famous gardens of Iran. This beautiful garden with its pool and orchards was designed for Shah Abbas I as a classical Persian vision of paradise. The original Safavid buildings have been substantially replaced and rebuilt by the Qajar dynasty although the layout of trees and marble basins is close to the original. The garden itself however, was first founded 7000 years ago alongside the Cheshmeh-ye-Soleiman. The garden is also notorious as the sight of the murder of Mirza Taghi Khan known as Amir Kabir, chancellor of Nasser-al-Din Shah, Iran's King in 1852.
The earthquake of 1778 leveled the city of Kashan and all the edifices of Shah Abbas Safavi, leaving 8000 casualties. But the city started afresh however, and has today become a focal tourist attraction via the numerous large houses from the 18th and 19th centuries, illustrating the finest examples of Qajari aesthetics.
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L 'IRRIGATION TRADITIONNELLE PAR LES FOGGARAS
The term foggara means:
an underground gallery which consists of draining the waters of the aquifer from the plateau to the irrigated lands located in the depression. The foggara consists of several wells with varying depths joined at their bases by a gallery, which is characterized by geometric dimensions varying from one region to another depending on the nature of the terrain.
the foggara drains the water table thanks to the pressure difference that exists between the drainage gallery and the surface of the aquifer and that the drained flow is proportional to the folded height of the water table.
Isfahan & Kashan
Slideshow of photos, videos, and commentary from my 2015 Road Scholar Silk Road Trip to Isfahan and Kashan, Iran
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