Khatam world famous Sheikh Shaban village
For many people around the world, Iranian art is pure, sacred, and lovable art, like the handmade rug, which has a veil of miraculous art hidden in many homes, not on the ground, and underfoot, but on foot. It looks like a beautiful and eye-catching painting on the wall.
Among the arts of handicrafts, the art of embroidery is a very beautiful and unique art of Iranians.
The art of embroidery is one of the most important beautiful and enduring arts of Iranian handicrafts, in which artists engrave the paintings of life on the body of a dead dead wood.
Khatam is a combination of regular polygons (five, six, seven, eight or ten) that are formed in different colors using various raw materials, including wood, bone, copper wire and wire.
The peak of flourishing and evolution of this art was during the Safavid period and at different times, it has been used in the construction and decoration of the shrine and holy shrine of the Imams (AS) and holy Islamic places.
The inlay industry is of great artistic value and is considered one of the most precise and versatile handicrafts that has long been practiced by artists of the Central Plateau of Iran, including Isfahan, and then brought to Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and Sheikh Shaban village.
Sheikh Shaban village in Ben city of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province has become the current cradle of Khatam Kari art in Iran and Gol Sanat Khatam artists of this village have gained national and global fame that fascinated many travelers and tourists. It motivates.
Sheikh Shaban village, 39 km away from Shahrekord; It is located in the center of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and is the main hub of Khatam production in the country.
This village is one of the important centers of tourism and pilgrimage in the province and the region due to the presence of the holy shrine of Imamzadeh Seyyed Bahauddin Mohammad (AS), the presence of handicraft artists such as inlay making, and having pristine and beautiful mountainous nature and water. And the favorable weather annually welcomes thousands of travelers and tourists from around and around.
I have to say; The residents of Sheikh Shaban village also have a reputation, talent and visa ability in other fields of handicrafts such as engraving and mosaic tiling.
