Termeh ( fa, ترمه) is a type of Persian (

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ian) handwoven cloth, produced primarily in the Isfahan province. Now the

Yazd Yazd ( fa, یزد ), formerly also known as Yezd, is the capital of Yazd Province, Iran. The city is located southeast of Isfahan. At the 2016 census, the population was 1,138,533. Since 2017, the historical city of Yazd is recognized as a Worl ...

Termeh is the most beautiful and famous in the world.

is the center of the design, producing and marketing of Termeh. Weaving termeh requires a good

wool Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids. The term may also refer to inorganic materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have properties similar to animal wool. As ...

with long fibers. Termeh is woven by an expert with the assistance of a worker called a ''Goushvareh-kesh''. Weaving termeh is a sensitive, careful, and time-consuming process; a good weaver can produce only in a day. The background colors used in termeh are

jujube Jujube (), sometimes jujuba, known by the scientific name ''Ziziphus jujuba'' and also called red date, Chinese date, and Chinese jujube, is a species in the genus ''Ziziphus'' in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. Description It is a smal ...

red, light red, green, orange and black. Termeh has been admired throughout history; Greek historians commented on the beauty of

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

weavings in the Achaemenian (532 B.C.),

Ashkani Askani (also known as ''Ashkani'') is a Baloch tribe from Balochistan known as Baloch. They are also found in Balochistan, Pakistan. People * Akbar Askani *Liaquat Ali Askani Name The Ferdowsi poem says that the army of Ashkash was from the wan ...

(222 B.C.) and Sasanidae (226–641 A.D.) periods and the Chinese tourist Hoang Tesang admired termeh. During the

Safavid Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

period (1502–1736 A.D.), zarbaf and termeh weaving techniques were significantly refined. Due to the difficulty of producing termeh and the advent of mechanized weaving, few factories remain in Iran that produce traditionally woven Termeh. طرح تاج

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