Gilan Tourist Attraction

Chador-Shab Weaving Workshop

Everything is available for your chador-shab weaving experience

Walking in the alleyways of the Ghasem Abad village, you will pass the doors of many Chador-shab workshops. In one of these local looms, you will be introduced to the artisan of chador-shab weaving whose workshop is finely designed with enthralling floor mats, tablecloths, curtains, table runners and all woven with chador-shab technique. After getting to know about chador-shab weaving history, designs and motifs, and especial weaving loom called pachal, the master demonstrates weaving technique on the pachal machine. She also explains about motifs and their interpretations. These local workshops are one of the Ghasem-Abad tourist attractions.

Chador-Shab Pachal

a handmade Loom for Weaving Chador-shab

Three or four women are hand in hand to put the long threads together based on the desired pattern and the final width of the fabric. Then it is time to roll up the settled threads and put them in the handmade loom, locally known as pachal. The weaver now puts the chosen spool into the wooden weaving shuttle as the weft. Flying the weft between the wraps, gradually artist makes a unique, delicate fabric. After each flight of the shuttle, the artist beats the threads with a tool named comb to put the wefts between the wraps and make an acceptably knitted textile.

Chador-Shab Handwoven Crafts

waist wrap, handbag, bed cover, baby wrap, table cloth, cushion

Previously chador-shab was a piece to tide around waists and protected the waist from humid climate of the Ghasem Abad, as a handbag, as a baby wrap to carry the babies or as a bed cover. Nowadays, these colorful art pieces in different sizes, patterns, and colors could be a table cloth, a cushion or floor seat to set with your furniture.

Ghasem abadi Woman Dress

Long skirts, top outfit, short dark vest, and a scarf

Ghasem abadi women have their specific custom. Long skirts designed with colorful horizontal stripes, Chador-Shab as the waist covering, top outfit, short dark vest, and a scarf are the main elements of traditional clothes of women in this region. If you want to travel to Iran and going to Ghasem Abad village don’t forget to buy beautiful Ghasem abadi dress.

Ghasem abadi Dance

Ghasem abadi dance is popular among the people of Ghasem abad in gilan

Iranian dances are dance styles indigenous to Iran. Genres of dance in Iran vary depending on the area, culture, and language of the local people, and can range from sophisticated reconstructions of refined court dances to energetic folk dances. Ghasem abadi dance is a chain genre, rice-harvesting dance of the Gilaki people from the Gilan province of Iran.

Chador-Shab Waist Wrap

Gilani women wrap chador-shab around their waist while working in paddy fields

Rice has always been the staple food of the Iranian people, and it plays a crucial role as the essence of Iranian life. Iran is located in the mid-latitude belt of arid and semi-arid regions of the Earth but because of the coastal weather in northern Iran the two northern provinces of Gilan and Mazandaran are home to a majority of Iran’s paddy fields. The women in north of Iran tightened chador-shab around their waist to protect their waist from humid climate of the north of Iran, while working on the rice field.

Ghasem Abad Local Market

Shopping different chador-shab handmade cloths

Shopping different chador-shab handmade cloths, curtains, bed linens and table clothes from local market in Ghasem Abad is an interesting entertainment. These local shops are one of the Ghasem Abad tourist attractions.

Ghasem Abad Harvest Celebration

Rice farmers in northern Iran will show gratitude to the generosity of nature at harvest season during a festival on September. Agriculture is one of the sacred jobs that people in different regions have been busy with since past times. The celebration of Kharman (harvest) is a traditional, olden and lasting ceremony in northern Iran which is held at the end of the agricultural season after a period of planting and harvesting the products of wheat and rice paddy to eliminate farm workers fatigue in spring and summer in Mazandaran, Gilan and Golestan provinces since Qajar era. This celebration is a symbol of the gratitude, friendship and cooperation of the people and a way to preserve and revive ancient traditions and native culture.