Iranian Souvenirs – Page 2

Handicrafts and souvenirs of Gachsdaran

Some of the handicrafts and souvenirs of Gachsdaran are as follow:

Bag
Belt
Reticular
Diaphoretic planks
Pearl knitting
Jajim knitting
Black Tent weaving knitting
Carpet knitting
Basket knitting
Traditional pendants
Citrus
Cedar
Oak bread (Kolak)
Kalkheng (plant)
Ramlak
Jujube

About ninety percent of the employees in this city are the women. Two thousand and three hundred craftsmen in this city have received ID cards. There is 500 crafts workshop in this city. 280 craftsman of the city is under insurance that ninety-five percents of them are the village women.

What are Fooman Souvenirs?

local muffins

local muffins are Fooman Souvenirs and one of the thousand delicious sweets of Iran. The main ingredients of these muffins contain Flour, eggs, sugar, animal oil, cinnamon, vanilla, Jos and cardamom brain.

From the souvenirs of Fooman instead of appreciating muffins we can point to the Silk, Khoshkar string, Tea, Rice, Smoked fish, Salted fish, Pickled garlic, Seven Bijar, Lakou (a kind of bread made of brass), and a variety of crafts such as Masouleh Dolls.

Fooman Silk

Hitherto 30 tons of silk harvested in Fooman. Currently, 740 persons are engaged to profession sericulture in the Fooman city.

What are Baneh Souvenirs?

Baneh is one of the cities in Kordestan province. Some of Baneh Souvenirs contain Wood Joinery, Hand weaving, Woodturning, Build local ornaments, Needlecraft and refinish, Pottery, Mat weaving, Cotton summer Embroidered, Felting, Producing Leather products, Hand weaving contains Prayer rug, Wave, Scarf, Jajim, Glim, Glimcheh, and Suiting.You can find them in the most parts of the Kordestan cities and villages. Ornaments are contained: bracelet, Necklaces, Bangle, Circlet, Snood, and Earring. Wood Joinery contains Pack of cigarette, female bag, Tray, Dish, The dish for the sweet and special dish for Nuts.

Abu Musa Souvenirs

Every year when the tide is happening large quantities of all kinds of mussels, snails, and remains of the Persian Gulf Aquaculture pours in the several islands of this Gulf coast (Kish, Abu Musa, Lark, Qeshm, Hormoz, etc.) that they are collected by gusto of people and they produce panel, statues and various objects from them.

The raw consumables materials are containing:

Shell of snails
oysters
the bone of fish
scallop and coral

They use colorless glue to connect the selected pieces.

What are Behbahan Souvenirs?

Behbahan is the city in the Khuzestan province. This city has many attractions for travelers. Khuzestan and the cities that it has inside had good weather for agriculture. The good weather of the Khuzestan is the reason that it has such a great souvenirs in lots of variations. The most famous souvenirs of Khuzestan is date and date palm of this city have variation in many kinds that Behbahan souvenirs are from them.

These souvenirs are representative of whole Khuzestan souvenirs.

Some of the Ahvaz souvenirs are as follow:

Sugar Halva
Sesame Halva
Ardeh Halva
Ardeh Sap
Traditional cookies
Many kinds of spices such as paprika
Palm fiber

Date Palm

Date palm is one of the best souvenirs of Ahvaz. Khuzestan province especially Ahvaz has many Nakhlestan (Palms trees) inside itself that every year they prepare some percentages needs of the country. You can see lots of variations of dates palms in this city and taste each one that you want and prepare it base on your taste.

Totally Date palms organize into two parts:

1/Wet date palms

2/ Dry date palms

Wet date palm is the one that it has sap like the Mazafaty date. Dry date palm is the one that they picked from the tree late and they are dry in half.

Date palm has hot nature near the many properties as follow:

It is energy producer
A rich source of iron
Protein
Comestible fiber
Potassium
Vitamin

Many people Know Date palm as the complete meal that it is the source of energy. You can find many models of date palms from Khuzestan province.

Sayer Date palm of Behbahan

Behbahan Sayer Date palm is one of the famous dates palms of Khuzestan that most of this product export to Australia and Europe. This date palm is bestselling date palm and has a good price. This kind of date palm is dry and has a very special taste and this is a good selection for the people that they like date palm with such great taste.

Kabkab date palm of Behbahan

One the other desirable date palm of Behbahan is Kabkab date palm. Kabkab date palm is grown in Bushehr and Yazd either. In the comparison appearance of this kind of date, the palm is smaller than the other kinds of date palm in Behbahan. You can find 2 other souvenirs that they have come from the sap and sugar of this date that they are separately available as souvenirs.

Zahedi Date palm of Behbahan

Maybe you have the date and date palm in one category but they are not as same as each other and date palm has different stages to grow. In one of this stages date, palm come to be dark and juicy because of sunlight that you can call it Mazafaty and Kabkab dates. Now if you don’t pick the date and let it be on the tree and come to be dry so it comes to be Zahedi and Payarom date palms. So Zahedi is a kind of date palm that is dry and you can use it instead of sugar near your tea and enjoy it.

Some of the products of Behbahan Date palm

Some of the other souvenirs of Khuzestan province that they come from date palms and dates are as follow:

Brown core of Date palm
Vinegar of Date palm
Sugar of Date palm
Sap of Date palm
Manakin
Halva of Date palm
Chips of date palm
Bread of Date palm
Chocolate of Date
Many kinds of sweets

Brown core of Date palm

Roasting the core of Date palm then make them powder that they call coffee of date. Brew the coffee date that near its memorable smell you can have the best properties of it for your body, also they make the ointment from this powder either that is fixed eyelid swelling. I suggest to you use and have it as souvenirs for your family and friends.

Sugar of Date Palm

In very past years people make sugar from Date palm and when it was nature it was very well for the body. Now you can prepare this kind of sugar for yourself and you can be sure that it hasn’t disadvantaged for the body. This kind of sugar is very useful for the diabetic peoples.

Manakin date of Behbahan

Manakin is a kind of dry sweet and dessert of South of Iran that is similar to Halva. For making this kind of food you must use date palm and walnut that it will make the energy produced food and it is very well and useful for the body. This kind of food decorates in many variations.

Sap of date palm of Behbahan

The sap of date is very nutrition and use it near Ardeh is one of the other souvenirs of Khuzestan province and it is one of the complete meals for everyone. Sap can be use near the tea and it is also used to make any kind of food sweet.

Gabbeh Fars

Gabbeh or the rug is the kind of carpet with another gender that is usually weaving in the small shape and by the hands of Lor and Qashqai nomads.

Early humans used of the skin of animals as their ground cloth. With the passage of time, they domesticated animals that they have wooly skin and obtained enough experiments in making necessary tools, they spine the wools of the animals and weaved simple kilims that they were the first warp and weft ground clothes.

Later base on the experiments and tries they made different kinds of ground clothes in the variety of shapes that one of them has the name of Gabbeh.

Gabbeh has high lint and the numbers of woof in making of itself and that it has more impressive effect in the softness of Gabbeh. In some kinds of Gabbeh, the numbers of woofs are from 3-8 in every row and the height of them are sometimes come to be until one centimeter.

History

It is not truly understood that where the name of Gabbeh from. The scientific of carpet today for finding the root of this word passes very hard sophisticated ways.

They find two meanings for this word that the fist on is “Ugly and usual” and the second one is “Protection”. But today the meaning of this word is “Rough” and that is the kind of carpet and has coarse weaves. At first, it was as the woven ground cloth that was the barrier of influence the cold state of the ground.

Different Gabbeh designs

At first, Gabbehs were weaving simple and without any special design. The weavers weaved Gabbeh by inspiration from the environment and nature around themselves and they work by their designs inside their mind on Gabbeh either.

Because the weavers made Gabbeh for their needs and personal consumers so they use to form their idea inside their mind to made Gabbeh and sometimes they weave their wishes on Gabbeh and show them to anyone else. These wishes are as same as the design of Chador (scarf) that it has maybe the meaning of having fixed shelter and or having the role of the human as family and the other designs that each of them shows their unique role for anybody.

Gabbeh is the tissue that it contains origin and designs that they use in weaving them are making shapes of them different from the other kinds of tissues. Most of Gabbeh designs are inspiration from the nature around weavers and the things that they happened in the weaver’s mind.

The most important designs of Gabbeh are as follow:

Lion design

The most important design that it was weaving around nomads is the lion that is the only common one between weavers from different regions.

Adobe or frame shape design

This design is one of the most practical designs of Gabbeh and it is beloved in between of Fars and Bakhtiari weavers. The basis of that includes designs with regular frames that each of the frames individually coordinated design with the other frames.

Designs that they use in the frames and make frames beautiful are as follow:

Geometric designs
Tree, flower and bird designs
Studs designs
Star designs

Design of Gabbeh dock

This design contains Bergamot in the middle that it shows a flower that it is the resource of the other flowers and buds that they spread in the Gabbeh.

Design of Gabbeh Flower

The design of the Rose flower inside the Gabbeh called Gabbeh flower.

Design of Eilat

This design is coming from nature around nomads and it is quite subjective. You can find this kind of design mostly inside some frames as follow:

Oval
Square
Circle
Rectangular
Lozenge

Each frame is adorning with Iranian origin designs.

Design of Tree

The tree has the important place in the human life that from all trees Weeping willow (symbol of sorrow) and Cedar (symbol of happiness) have most use in between of people.

Design of Corrugated

This kind of design has different spices that they weave by the hands of weavers. Directions of these ways in the Gabbeh are often in the shapes of vertical and skewed and sometimes you can see horizontal ways either.

Home in Home design

There is a mystical concept inside this design. These homes inside each other and monotone are showing abstract pictures from the stages of life that the beginning of that is from the universe and end of that is lead to the gem of essence and existence.

Design of Simple Floor

This kind of Gabbeh incarnate tables without designs against mind. This doesn’t have any designs show the poor rural homes and without product lands of the villagers. The other kinds of designs are used in the villagers Gabbeh that they are as follow:

Animals
Man
Sanctuary
Four corners
Crinkle
Spider
Lozenge Lozenge
Lozenge that they are on each other

Comparing of Old and New Gabbeh

The kinds of Gabbeh that they were weaving in the past had colour from themselves. It means that they use the wool of the ship without any changing in the colour of them.

These colours are as follow:

Black
White
Grey

If weavers have a good day they will use white colour but if they don’t spend the enjoyable day so you can understand their feeling from the Black colours of the Gabbeh. Little by little weavers consume from the natural and herbal colours for their wools and combined their mental designs with these colours wools. After this time good welcomes come to these Gabbeh and for having more speed chemical dyes replaced of natural colours and also spinning machine came instead of hand spinning wool. With the disappearance of the old and mental designs, new designs are coming instead of them. However, these designs don’t have the originality of the last designs but they have special beauty for themselves. This kind of Gabbeh has the good boom for a little time but by passing the time they lost their value.

Ways of keeping Gabbeh

As same as the same levels of producing Gabbeh that they contain special importance for itself, keeping it also needs accuracy and attention that it will have the reason for increased durability and price of them.

Damaging elements are including such insects as follow:

Willow
Termite
Beetle
Mouse

From this group an awful one is Willow. There are some different ways for countering with Willow. These proposed ways are as follow:

Using special chemical solution in the time of washing
Spray front and back parts of Gabbeh with insecticide
Using naphthalene and tobacco in stock

People must avoid from keeping it in dark and wet places, and also in exposed of direct sunlight radiation because they are reasons of making Gabbeh pale.

It is better for staying of them from any kind of wet probable situation using part of carpet under them and exposure them in the air.

What are Ferdows city souvenirs?

Ferdows souvenirs are as same as the souvenirs of other parts of our beautiful country and they contain food, agricultural products, and various handicrafts. From the most famous of them, we can point to the Qaenat Barberry and Saffron that both of them have the global reputation.

This province is the premier province of Iran in the background of agriculture and in addition to having the first place in the production of barberry and jujube, it has the second place in the production of saffron and cotton, it is the 6th producer of pomegranate and 8th producer of sugar beet.

South Khorasan province also has high capacity in the mining sector. The only magnesite reserves of Iran and the country’s largest mine Asbestos are in this province. Copper Mines, Magnesite, Granite, Basalt, Travertine, and bauxite are the only parts of mines that are being implemented in this province.

This province in addition to being one of the historical and architectural parts of Iran, due to its geographical situation has many natural attractions that they are especially for the wilderness areas and desert.

Agriculture product

Anaab (Jujube)

South Khorasan province as the largest producer of Jujube in our country, devoted more than 95 percent of the area of itself under cultivation of this product.

Jujube cultivation because of the compatibility of this product with climatic conditions has spread from ancient times in many areas of the province. In between the farmers of this city (about 9500 families), the main source of their earnings is Jujube production. Jujube harvest in the tropical city of this province that is started from the first of August and in the mountainous villages, it’s started from the first of October.

Zereshk (Barberry)

Iran country is the biggest producer of Barberry in the whole world and Qaenat city in the Khorasan province has the 97% of its land under the cultivation of this crop and produce 95 percents of the barberry of our country. Barberry harvesting begins in October.As Barberry bushes are prickly harvesting them are very difficult so all the families of the farmers participate in this work. Seedless barberry of Qaenat is one of the popular souvenirs of South Khorasan.

Zaferan (Saffron)

This plant of a pretty color is from the native plants of Iran and because of the limitation in cultivation and production of that so it is counting on the category of expensive foods. Since saffron is completed in desert areas it is famous for the “Red gold of desert”. Iran has the first position in the world production of Saffron and allocated more than 90 percent of global production to itself. South Khorasan province after Khorasan Razavi is the second producer of Saffron in Iran and Saffron cultivation in the province has more than 700 years old antiquity. The Saffron of this province from the quality (aroma and color) in compare with Khorasan Razavi province is more desirable and Qaenat city of this province is known as the capital of world Saffron.

Anaar (Pomegranate)

Ferdows city in south Khorasan province is the main manufacturer of Pomegranate in Iran and after the Saveh city in Markazi province and Ney riz city in Fars province is the third manufacturer of Pomegranate. Cultivation plentiful of Pomegranate in this city made this fruit as the major industry of there. In gardens of Ferdows city, different species of pomegranate are cultivated.

Some kinds of pomegranate in this city are as follow:

Shisheh kap, Shahvar, Shalqami (Turnips), Yazdi Nigella sativa and …

The best kinds of pomegranate is from the Ferdows city with the name of “Shisheh kap” and it has the special location in the export of pomegranate and more than 80 percent of annual production of there are exporting to the other countries such as Spain, Japan, South Korea and the countries around the Persian Gulf. “Shisheh Kap” pomegranate has the smooth and red skin and the seeds of the fruit have the dark red colour with desirable and sour-sweet taste. This kind of pomegranate has a little bust and this is the reason of lasting more of this fruit in the places such as the warehouse.

Handicrafts

Barak bafy (to weave kind of cloth)

Barak is kind of cloth that is prepared from the Camel wool or goat hair. This kind of cloth is soft and thick that is weaving with traditional textile products machinery and has excellent softness and strength. This kind of cloth is mostly weaved for the man clothes especially their Jacket of the winter. In the past Tailors made fine garments for Rulers. This cloth has its own different colours of brown, black, white, milky and gray. Barak bafy (weaving Barak) is one of the old traditional souvenirs of Khorasan.

Tarkeh bafy (to weave twig)

Tarkeh bafy is one of the subsets of mat weaving art that the main difference between them is in the materials that they use. For the preparation of the material used in this art, they use young and thin (Twig) branches of Musk willow red trees and peanuts bushes. This kind of art base on the abundance of raw material is very common in different cities of Khorasan like as Birjand. In the Autumn and Winter due to the loss of farmers work this work is more common among the people. They made different kinds of dishes. Pay attention that the green dishes that are weaving by Musk willow twig is more strengthen in compare with the red one that weaving with the Red Willow.

Carpet weaving

A handmade carpet of south Khorasan that is Known as Maud carpet has the big portion of producing Qali in Iran and its global famous make it very unique and give it the location to be in the different museum of whole Iran. Although you can find carpet weaving industry in all parts of Iran but the source of it is in the Moud City. The way of weaving them is as same as Mashhad carpet but from the part of quality obviously, they are superior from them.

Some of the design of the Moud carpet that they are now a day common are Rize Mahy (Small Fish), Kheshty (Adobe), Kaleh Asby (Head of the Horse), Robi Saadi (Saadi quarter ), Afshar with seven colors.

What are Bam souvenirs?

Khorma-ye Mazafati Bam (Mazafati date of Bam)

Iranian dates have different kinds, that consume each one is different from the other one and they have them own shapes of consuming. Among all kinds of dates, Mazafati date is the most familiar one. The mazafati date is finding in both domestic and foreign markets and it is consuming as one of the most delicious dates. Mazafati date of Bam is the best kind of date in the whole world.

Never forget Mazafati and the other dates of Bam. Bam has the blessing of great dates.

Qaut

Qaut that in the Bami accent called “Qovato” is a kind of traditional foods products that are made by the mixing several sow plants and medicinal herbs that after roasting them come to be powder and mills with sugar. This is the custom that when one woman childbirth people give her and her guests “Qovato” until she gives reinforcement.

Local Sahn Komach

The traditional and special sweet of Bam city in the Kerman province is local Sahn Komach that contains high calorie.

In this kind of sweet, local people use the kind of flour as same as Wheat flour for making dough. Before baking some materials as same as date and walnut, almond or pistachio are putting in the middle of the dough layers. This sweet is making without any preservative and additives but however, it can keep for a long time out of the refrigerator. Given the effective materials in making this sweet have many calories so you will feel satiety if you only eat one part of that with a glass of milk.

What are Bojnoord Souvenirs?

Bojnoord souvenirs are not known for everyone. Bojnoord is provincial capital of North Khorasan, it is a town with a good climate. Bojnoord is the spectacular place, and it can be a perfect option for travel, even because of the good weather many kinds of edible souvenirs and agricultural products can find there. The famous souvenirs of Bojnoord contain Candy ( Shekar Panir ), Qarreh Qorut, Curd, Razzaqi Grape.

Some the other kinds of Bojnoord souvenirs that you can find them in the other parts of North of Khorasan are as follow:

Dried fruit
Nuts and Raisins
Peaches and apples
Fruit

Bojnoord Candy

Bojnoord has about eighty years experience in produce candy and most of the people like to eat them. Many Iranian prefer to have candy instead of sugar near their tea and this is one of the reasons that candy has lots of advocates in Iran. If you just once taste them you will buy them every time. Candy is made from water, sugar, lemon and white part of the egg. At first, the candy made very simple but nowadays you can find many models of it with different tastes for all the people.

Some of the taste are as follow:

Coconut , Saffron, Lemon, Pistachio, Cinnamon, Ginger, Sesame, Cocoa, Barberry and Cardamom.

Bojnoord pistachio candy:

Pistachio is very good and eating it is very useful for the body especially for the people that they are weak or ill. Pistachio contains vitamins, iron, calcium, phosphorus, and potassium. This candy has good taste and it is in the parts of expensive candies.

Bojnoord cinnamon candy:

Cinnamon has a hearty taste near the tea and it is very effective in the treatment of muscle ache. It also reduces the blood pressure. It acts like Insulin. Daily consumption of it is very good for health and it is sedative either.

Bojnoord Cardamom candy:

Cardamom also has very good taste near the tea. It has it advocates and lots of people prefer to eat them with their tea.

Properties of it are as follow:

Help digestion, improve appetite, improve colds, strengthens the kidneys and so on.…

Bojnoord Berry candy:

It is good for the people that like the sweet and sour taste together. It contains good color either.

Bojnoord Sesame candy:

This candy is mixed with the Sesame seed but all the people don’t like them. Its properties are as follow strengthened vessels, migraine prevention, osteoporosis, lower cholesterol.

Bojnoord Qarreh Qorut

Qarreh Qorut is one of the productions of the milk. There are good pastures in North of Khorasan that has prospered as the ranch. Qarreh Qorut is one production that depends on to the ranch. In Turkish, the people say Black curd to the Qarreh Qorut either. It has Light cream, yellow and dark brown colors. Qarreh Qorut has its own advocates but does not eat too much of it because its disadvantages are more than advantages.

Bojnoord Grape

One of the most important productions in North of Khorasan is grape. The first grape that produces in around Bojnoord is call, Khalili grape. The first kinds of it are produced in July and the end kinds of it are produced in October that is called Razaqi. These grapes can easily find in Bojnoord and they have good taste and they contain lots of properties either. Also, raisins with many benefits are one of the derivatives of the grapes.

What are Bushehr Souvenirs?

Bushehr is one of the beautiful ports of South Iran that has many tourist attractions. This beautiful port has quiet coastal and beautiful palm groves that they are attracted the eye of the beholder.

Some of the Bushehr souvenirs are as follow:

Date palm
Ardeh
Fish
Shrimp

In additions to them, you can prepare some Bushehr Handicrafts as souvenirs either.

Meskhetian Turks
Rashi Halva
Sangak Halva
Baked Kharak (Kind of Date)

Bushehr Date

Date palm cultivation in Bushehr is back to the Achaemenid era and today it is one of the main Jobs of Bushehrian peoples. This job is the production of the date palm and the resulting products of them. Overall, in the discussion of expert date has the special place in Iran and that is why Bushehr is important from this respect.

The date is one of the most Nutritious fruits that we can say many properties for it such as A large percentage of glucose and sucrose, Vitamins A, B, C, E, as well as it is the rich source of energy for the body.

The date has many products such as Palm sap, Date vinegar, Palm Fruit roll, Date nectar, Extracts of Palm as a drink, Palm Chocolate for breakfast and … that each of them has its own unique flavor.

Bushehr Ardeh

Ardeh is one of the delicious Sesame products that it is a high-energy food and comes to be more delicious near Honey, Palm sap, and Grape sap. Ardeh oil is a rich source of vitamins, antioxidants, and saturated fat…

Also according to its many properties, it will make the body resist against the cold weather.

Some of the others properties of Sesame oil are as follow:

Prevent from the hair loss and make rapid growth of Hair
Useful for anemia

• Reinforcement of Blood flow

Bushehr Fish and Shrimp

If you are searching for the Fresh and Tasty Fish of South sea of Iran, Bushehr city is the good idea for you to finding the best of them there. Fish markets in Bushehr have lots of booms and you can find your favorite Fish and Shrimps there. Bushehr Fish as same as the other cities of South of Iran has many varieties. Some of these Fish are as follow: Squid, Tap Fish, Hamoun Fish, Sangsar Fish and …

Near the Fish, you can find the best fresh Shrimp in Bushehr. Bushehr Shrimp has many fans either. Also, the delicious local cuisine of Bushehr that they prepare with fish and Shrimp will attract your idea.

Category: Iranian Souvenirs