Kilim knitting
Kilim is one of the handicraft productions that is used as carpet, curtains in tents and in public places such as coffeehouses as well as in furniture and tools such as : praying cloth cover,kyack,saddlebag,pillow,table cloth and so on.
The histry of kilim knitting in Sistan and Baluchistan returns to the arrival of Saka in fact people to the Sistan region. The uniQue culture of kilim knitting ,is reponsive to the peasants and emigrants'primary needs who were seeking for a hay tent , carpeted tents and warm sleeping beds.
These woven kilims are productions of imagination and technical skills of people who lived under undesirable conditions. Kilim knitting plays a major part in promotion of the women place and her family in Marrige,and a major part of dowry as well as a good income resource for the husbands.
Hence ,skill getting in kilim knitting and training has been an essential duty for the young brides.the constraints of women participation in society led to the transfer of women feelings, form generation to generation, through these special designs and motifs. These elements,with fanatic enthusiasm to make a best quality dowry altogether,throughout several decades,numerous kilims with suffer and affiction,without any financial expectation simply to show talent,art,taste and ability as a whole, human entirety of the bride have been created.the raw material and tools for kilim knitting are:
1.scaffold (kilim knitting machine)
2.wrap yarn
3.yarn bowstring (wool)after wool has undergone,shearing,washing,spinning,dyeing,is used for kilim knitting.
Different types of kilim productions include saddleback (a type of big sack),pillow,kyack and table cloth.
