Handicrafts

MASTER BAHRAM MONABATI

WOODCARVING 

Shiraz and Abadeh are among the centers in which the inlaid is professionally made and large professors in these cities are engaged in training and teaching artists and enthusiasts.  What is known today in Iran’s traditional embossing is the way of carving that is elegance and refusal of imitation and also to evidence the initiative and thought in the plan and the map is unique to Abadeh, which has expanded elsewhere.

Bahram Monbati, The master of woodcarving in Iran

We are going to the tomb of Hafez, and after the greetings, we enter into the night ward of the tomb, which is located on the left side of the mausoleum, and the diary of Bahram Manbati, a carved artist, retiring not to be lost in the memory frame. He was born in Abadeh, 1315, and lecturer at the University and a member of the Department of National and Local Documents in Fars. He is the name of the art of Woodcarving in Iran, which is engaged in the cultural capital of the country. He said: “The inlaid is my ancestral job, which was in the reign of Hashem ibn Ali, who was in the Safavid era, and so I was familiar with the wood and I was looking for my father’s inlaid hours.

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A gift to Eisenhower

He is reviewing his childhood memories and said:
Because I was small, my father did not allow me to seize the knife, but I wish I had to take the knife on. But I wish I had to take the knife on a day, Until the day when the father had been a guest, I picked the knife up to work with. The father did not say anything, and he pulled a three-feather flower on wood to carve it. I remember that night, I didn’t sleep.

Bahram Monabati says: During adolescence, I was doing things with my father, but after receiving the diploma in 1337 I went to Tehran and the Shah ordered me. I carved a table from ivory, which the table was given as a gift by the Shah to the president of America’s time, Eisenhower, and today kept the table at the White House Museum.

The first class of Woodcarving in Iran:

He mentions days that he was trying to bring the art of inlay into the city of Shiraz and to educate the art enthusiasts. In 1346, I was the first person to bring woodcarving to Shiraz, and in the year 1360 at home culture No. 1 in Shiraz, the first class of classes was held for the gentlemen, and in the year 1372 for the first time in Iran, the woodcarving class for women was formed. During the years we worked closely with the Office of the Islamic Culture and guidance of Fars. Master Monabati believes that the traditional embossing is exclusively owned by Fars, which is preserved after the Safavid era in Abadeh, and this art is the most elegant craft that is a fusion of art and the craftsmanship of artists who create valuable products with inexpensive and simple ingredients.

Future art inlaid

He said that some people have art but they are not considered artists. Because the artist has features such as the richness of nature, love, contentment and generosity, and these are the fundamental factors that make the difference, it believes that in the last thirty years, there has been good attention to the art carved and despite the gifted students who are bringing to this art, there is no concern about I do not have the future of this art as many of the students such as Abbas Fereiduni, Farzad Daneshvar and Farid Foundation have become a major faculty that trains many students and strive for their durability.

Future of Woodcarving

Stating that some of the art is not considered an artist.
Because the artist has features such as the richness of nature, love, contentment and generosity, and these are the fundamental factors that make the difference, it believes that in the last thirty years, there has a good attention to the art carved
and because of the gifted students who are bringing to this art,
there is no concern about the future of this art as many of the students such as Abbas Fereiduni, Farzad Daneshvar and Farid Boniad have become a major masters that trains many students and strive for durability of woodcarving.

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