All about Iranian khatam art
Khatam is a native art of Iran that is more like a collage. Unless you make it with paper, wood, wire, and shell instead of paper and cloth.
From the eighteenth century to the present, inlays have been glued with small triangles and made on the surface of decorative pieces. Before the 17th century, squares were used instead of triangles. However, after the Mongol invasion, the Iranians were introduced by Chinese injection, which was done with three simple black and white triangles. This was the inspiration of Iranian artists, and they mixed everything they had known before with the Chinese method with their own method and led to the creation of better works of art. Khatamkari is one of the Persian arts in Iran in which the level of wooden and metal products with wooden, bone and metal cuts is designed in various forms.
The materials used in these industries can be gold, silver, brass, aluminum and twisted wire. Various types of inlaid, embroidered products and their quality are well known with good size and geometric design. In this art, smaller pieces are usually much more valuable.
These handicrafts include tanning patterns (generally stellar), with thin wood (ebony, tic, zizifus, orange, rose), rice (for gold pieces) and camel bones (white parts). Ivory, gold or silver can also be used. The rods are assembled in triangular beams and assembled and glued together to create a geometric concept such as a hexagonal star.
In some cases, the cylinders are cut into shorter cylinders and then compressed and dried in transverse terminals between the two wooden plates, before being cut for the last time. These parts are decorated on the body before covering the layers, so that they can be covered and glued before covering the varnish.
Transformers can also be softened by heating to be placed around objects. Many objects, including jewelry boxes, chessboards, pipes, tables, frames, or musical instruments, can be decorated in this way.
