TEHRAN:
Member states of the Financial Cooperation Group (ECO) showcased their carpet arts, together with Pakistani carpet designs, through the ECO regional carpet arts exhibition held in Tehran.
Along with the carpet exhibition, a parallel workshop on the artwork of vintage carpet restoration was additionally opened on the event, based on a press launch from Tehran on Saturday. Inaugurating the exhibition, President of the Financial Cultural Institute (ECI) of Tehran, Saad S Khan, emphasised that carpet is the oldest of all regional arts frequent within the nations of the area.
In the meantime, lecturers and lecturers who spoke on the event spoke concerning the frequent heritage of carpet designs in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and different ECO members. Khan added that Turkmenistan nonetheless holds Mat Day of every 12 months as a nationwide state vacation.
Students have highlighted the cultural significance of carpets as a cultural image, the position of carpets in hospitality in conventional properties, and the significance of carpet weaving as a type of subsistence. Specialists defined a number of strategies for restoring previous, worn or torn carpets as much as a century previous that may be restored to nearly as good as new.
The ceremony was adopted by a well-attended exhibition on the ECI Artwork Gallery in Tehran of unique handmade rugs from nations within the area, together with Pakistan. There was a stay demonstration of carpet restoration by artisans. Hundreds of tourists from all ECO nations are anticipated to go to this 12 months’s ongoing carpet exhibition.
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