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craft in southwest Iran.Opened on Friday, the eighth-day exhibition features a wide variety of traditional basketry made of natural
materials such as young twigs from trees and shrubs like willow, plant roots, grape or honeysuckle vines, or grasses.Hasir-Bafi or basketry
is one of the oldest fields of handicrafts on the Iranian plateau
It is not known when and where this craft was first invented
Archaeological evidence has found traces of mat weavings on plaster pieces that belong to six thousand years ago.The oldest piece of Hasir
in Iran belongs to the Shahdad region of Kerman province
Mat weaving, which is wearing thin reeds through cotton yarns, has not changed from ancient Egypt until today.Tools for Hasir-Bafi are very
simple and limited, including sickle, file, scissors, needle, and stitching awl
This art-craft is common in the provinces of Sistan-Baluchestan, Khuzestan, Kurdistan, Hormozgan, Bushehr, Kerman, Yazd, Fars, Mazandaran,
Gilan, and Tehran.To practice the craft, the first step is to pick stems that match each other in size and diameter to be soaked in water
Then three to five of them are packed together by another stem
These bundles are woven together to make objects such as baskets, bags, floor covers, wall hang, etc.AM
