Handicrafts Iran

Ardabil Jajim Rug ( Jajem )

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Jajim or Jajem means a “Thick cloth” like “palas” and also a kind of two-sides Carpet, which is thinner than Palas. Jajim is woven with colorful and fine threads of wool or mixture of silk and wool. It is a hand weave with no fluff and its two surfaces could be used. It is a tribal we...

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Ardabil's Gelim ( Kilim )

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Kilims (Persian: gelīm) are flat tapestry-woven carpets or rugs produced from the Balkans to Pakistan. Kilims can be purely decorative or can function as prayer rugs. Recently-made kilims are popular floor-coverings in Western households. Kilims are produced by tightly interweaving...

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Basket Weaving

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Blacksmithing

Blacksmithing

The experienced blacksmiths of yazd use ordinary tools such as pliers, hammers, knives, chisels and so on. Mehriz, Aqda, Nodoushan, Sakhvid and Khezrabad are premier centers of Blacksmithing. Reference: irib.ir...

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Boulaki bin

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Carpet

Carpet

Azarbaijan Gharbi has different types of handicrafts due to religiousand ethnic diversity and proximity with several countries. The handicrafts are divided in 2 categories: 1- Wooden handicrafts such as inlay, Moaragh, sculpturing, lattice, eleganceand etc. 2- Fibers handicrafts s...

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Carpet

Carpet

East Azerbaijan Province and specially Tabriz has an excellent position in the handicraft industry of Iran, having a large share in the exports of the province. Tabriz carpets are widely known around the world and in international markets for their vibrant designs and colors. Without ...

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Carpet

Carpet

A Tabriz rug/Carpet is a type in the general category of Iranian carpets from the city of Tabriz, the capital city of East Azarbaijan Province in north west of Iran. It is one of the oldest rug weaving centers and makes a huge diversity of types of carpets. The range starts at Bazaar ...

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Carpet

Carpet

The handicrafts produced in Ardabil province including carpets, gelims (rugs made of goats hair), jajims (fine carpets made of wool or cotton), shawls, woodwork and metalwork (like silverware) are delicate and impressive. Ardabil province is well known for its carpets as well as sweets...

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Carpet

Carpet

Qom or Qum rugs are made in the Qom Province of Iran, southwest of Tehran. The silk carpets of Qom are known for their high quality and have the most small dotted ones in Iran. The quality of Qom rugs and carpets varies. Newer ones are much better in quality and pattern. Most high qual...

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Carpet - weaving

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Carpet and Rug

Carpet and Rug

shiraz has been known for centuries as the city of roses, which is reflected in the motifs of many of the carpets. However, the most common motif, and one by which the carpets may be identified, is the diamond-shaped lozenge by itself in the centre of the Carpet or repeated along the le...

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Carpet and Rug

Carpet and Rug

In 1996, there were 65000 carpets weaving looms at work across the province and some 30,000 weavers were engaged in this old artistic and economic activity. Five square meters of Carpet is woven by each weaver per year. Carpets are usually made in 3x4, 2.5x3.5, 2.5x2.5, and 1x1 sizes ...

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Carpet in Ilam

Carpet in Ilam

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Ceramics

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Ceramics and Pottery

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Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up potterywares,of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a Pottery (plural "potteries"). Pottery also refers to the art or craft of the potter or the manufacture ...

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Choogha

Choogha

Choogha is a traditional material for making men’s suits and clothing for villagers. The raw materials are wool, cotton, and silk. The fabric is woven by a traditional machine called Kert Chaal. Choogha is a fabric in simple flat, sometimes with opposite color checkered design. Choo...

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Coppersmith

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Cotton summer

Cotton summer

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Crocheting

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Daraie

Daraie

yazd is a premier Daraie-weaving center in Iran, which is a kind of soft silk fabric with gorgeous-colored diamond shapes on it. The warps are always dyed before weaving. As the weaver makes the fabric, the colors and designs gradually appear. Daraie was made of natural silk in the ...

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Dolchehdouzi in Kazeroon Fars

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Kazeroon placed in the west of Fars Province. Kazeroon has specific crafts in addition to numerous historical monuments. Dolchehdouzi is one of these crafts and visible in one of the Kazeroon squares today. Mr. Mohammad Reza Paydar is one of the survivors of this industry who make thi...

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Embroidered Khvs

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Enamel working (Mina Kari)

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Enamel working and decorating metals with colorful and baked coats are one of the distinguished artwork in Isfahan. Although this course is of abundant use industrially for producing metal and hygienic dishes, it has been paid high attention by painters, goldsmiths and metal engravers ...

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Fars Gabbeh

Fars Gabbeh

Persian Gabbeh is a hand-knotted ( handmade ) thick Persian rug with long pile. It is made by the nomads of Fars province in south west Iran, of which the famous city of shiraz is the capital. The most famous nomad group of this region is the Qashqai Tribe. Although the existing few o...

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Fars Gelim ( Kilim )

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The handicrafts of Fars are rich in diversity, the most significant of which are as follow: silver smithing, marquetry and skill-embroidery in shiraz ; giveh (light Cotton summer shoes) making in Abadeh ; and Ceramics in Estahban ; Carpet, jajim (fine Carpet made of wool or cotton), and...

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Gelim ( Kilim )

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The kilim is a kind of tapestry-woven rug which has no pile like a knotted rug. being considered a typical handicraft in most provinces, particular in regions where nomads reside, the kilim is one of the most ancient hand-woven works, has been produced in Iran for centuries. despite t...

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Girih tiles

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Giveh Making ( Giveh weaving )

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Giveh is a type of traditional Iranian shoes that are very comfortable and suit Iranian climates (especially its dry climate). It is made of cotton threads which let the air in and cool the feet. The best type of Giveh is called ‘Maleki’. It comes in colors like black, brown and mostl...

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Glass in Tabriz

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Glass in Tabriz The ceramic coatings were developed in ancient times in Mesopotamia, other countries are taking the glass and glazing compounds it is not surprising that one of the glass industry in Babylon , Sumer and Assyria has made progress. Archaeologists have proven that real g...

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Glazed Tile work

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The beautiful Islamic art of Glazed Tile work greatly impresses its every viewer and is the creation of the expert craftsmen in Qum who by their artistic works create these masterpieces of Islamic art and culture. Reference : masoumeh.com ...

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Halanchegan

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Handmade Rug ( Kilim and Zilou )

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Meybod is a premier zilou-producing center. With regard to its pattern and fabric, it resembles wicker works and was used to Carpet the mosques and holy places. Zilou is made of cotton thread and comes in sizes of 3 meters by 4 meters or 2 meters by 3 meters. The white and blue zilou ...

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Haris carpet

Haris carpet

The name of these carpets is associated with the village of Heris or Herez to the North East of Tabriz. Heriz rugs are Persian rugs from the area of Heris, East Azerbaijan in northwest Iran, northeast of Tabriz. Such rugs are produced in the village of the same name in the slopes of Mo...

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Hasir Bafi (Mat knitting)

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Inlay working ( Khatam Kari)

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Khatam is beside Muarraq one of the finest Persian/Iranian wooden Handicrafts. Persian micro-mosaic Inlay work is called Khatam. Khatam is the Persian marquetry (Persian intarsia), a mosaic-like inlay of contrasting materials such as bone, mother-of-pearl, woods of various colors, metal...

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Isfahan's Carpet

Isfahan's Carp...

Carpets are one of the first artistic handicrafts which have been woven since ancient times in Persia . Iranian Carpets have always been famous all over the world. Almost all international tourists buy even a small Iranian Carpet during their trips in Iran. The oldest Persian Carpet w...

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Jajim Bafi

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Keleh

Keleh

Keleh is the local word for oven. It is in 5 different kinds in Mazandaran traditions. 1- Chendok Keleh: it is 40 X 60 X 50 cm thatch oven. It is very common at homes in rural areas. The name derives from the position of sitting in front of this kind of oven. 2- Shir Keleh: it is a ...

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Kerman's carpet

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Kermanshah's Leather making

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Today to bring the raw materials (leather) There are two ways. Sheep and goat skin prepared with alum and salt to the Magpie and tanning leather, raw cattle, donkeys and horses, the tanning is done as follows: 1 - handling raw water. Dry crude from the villages and surrounding areas t...

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Khatam ( Marquetry - Inlaid Work )

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Khatam or Marquetry is the art of decorating the surface of wood with delicate pieces of metal, bone and wood precisely cut in geometrical figures and shapes. Marquetry is one of the finest handicraft artworks of Iran. The materials used in the construction of inlaid articles can be in...

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Knife making

Knife making

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Knitting on fabric

Knitting on fa...

Iran needlework has been well-known around the world. However, it faces the danger of being lost. By convention, this is a fine and delicate way of sewing small fragments of materials onto the special fabric, which are woven (machine-made) in forms showing national themes. Needlework i...

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Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad's Gabbeh

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Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad's Gelim ( Kilim )

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Kurdish weaving Kelash

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Kurdish weaving Kelash One of the ancient artifacts of ancient kurdistan region "Kelash" is. The origin of the early Oraman now be made in many parts of kurdistan. Like most things in the village, making the village Kelash "Navarah" collective work and family. The first step is makin...

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Late Douzi (weaving)

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Malileh Douzi

Malileh Douzi

Gold and silver are among the valuable metals. Since the beginning of history has been considered in various forms and has experienced a variety of applications. Tapestry in the crafts field is something that the public interest to dismiss, and it is satisfactory and promising. Tapes...

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Marva Bafi ( Bamboo Mat Weaving )

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Mashteh

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Masnad

Masnad

Masnads: these are sturdy and fine-woven decorative kilimeches. The small gelims (Kilim) used in Namin village in Ardabil are called Masnad and they have many fans within and outside the country. Bench, is a unique area rugs such as kilims Ardabil Namin and amber on There is woven. On...

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mirror hanging

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Moarraq

Moarraq

Moarragh is An Iranian handicraft made of small pieces of different woods with different patterns and colour. Moarragh (similar to abaculus, Abaciscus) is a branch of art created from arranging small parts of different materials besides each other. Different types of Morarragh exist, ...

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Monabat ( Marquetry - Wood carving )

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Monabat or Marquetry is carving on wood. It is very similar to moarraq. The most important pre-requisite substance is wood such as pine, cypress, walnut & betel with religious designs. some other substances are ivory & bone. Reference : eshiraz.ir...

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Neyshabour Carpet

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Neyshabour Clay

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Papier-mâché

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Pottery

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Pottery and Ceramics

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Hamadam has always been well known for handicrafts like leather, and ceramic works, as well as for the beautiful carpets. The ceramic is centered in the Lalejin (30 km. north of Hamadan) in the vicinity of Hamadan. The city of Lalejin in Hamedan Province, with a population of 55,000, l...

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Pottery and Ceramics

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Pottery, the oldest handmade artwork, has a 6,000-year-old history in Iran. Local people call the earthenware ‘Kevareh’, which is made of clay. The earthenware is world famous for its designs, especially “fish”, “the lady sun” and “the hen”. Meybod is a prominent Pottery-producing c...

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Pottery qara Kahrizi Khameneh

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Pottery qara Kahrizi Khameneh Worthless soil and water and flowing, clear eyed view of the fact that each observer guests And the wheels turning, "Pottery" are playing Gordon Wheels From the soil and turn the wheel, and ignorance Rnd eat bread almost to the bottom. Land here is the a...

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Saddlery ( leather )

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Today to bring the raw materials (leather) There are two ways. Sheep and goat skin prepared with alum and salt to the Magpie and tanning leather, raw cattle, donkeys and horses, the tanning is done as follows: 1 - handling raw water. Dry crude from the villages and surrounding areas t...

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Shoemaker Doors

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Silversmith

Silversmith

Silver work and its related arts in the city of Tabriz with the quality flow by many artists. Tapestry work, engraving, scrimshaw are active field related to silver industry silver in this province, Jewelry, functional and decorative glassware, mirrors, and candlesticks, picture frames ...

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Sofre Kordi

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Termeh

Termeh

Termeh is a gorgeous silk fabric whose warp is silk thread and its pick is colorful silk, cotton and woolen threads. In olden days, people made Termeh by hand, because of which Termeh was known as “finger-woven fabric”. This gorgeous soft fabric is world famous for its patterns, espec...

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The dutar

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torkaman Carpet

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Traditional housing

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Verni bafi ( Weaving Verni)

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Verni-bafi (literally meaning Verni-weaving) is a unique art of northwestern Iran. This artistic activity is quite popular among women of the region, especially Arasbaran. Some 85 percent of nomads of East Azarbaijan province are active in weaving Verni. However, this Iranian handicra...

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Warsaw making

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Weaving carpet ( Kilim )

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yazd's handicrafts such as rug, small carpets, Kilim, Termeh (a gorgeous hand-made silk tapestry), Pottery, earthenware and ceramic are also famous. In order to find them all you need to call on bazaar. The yazd rugs have asymmetrical ( Persian ) knots with three wefts. The number of...

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Weaving Gachmeh

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Weaving Gar Gour

Weaving Gar Go...

Gregor weaving handicrafts of the province, which is common in this field artisans patiently and carefully wire wires woven together as groups to be provided with a means of fishing. Gregor of the few industries that are frequently used in fishing, and today the importance of making i...

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Weaving Gelim ( kind of rug )

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Persian Kilims are flatweaves including Gelim, Sumakh, Jajim, & Sofreh types. A thousand years ago, every town in Iran had its own distinct weaving style. Society was also a factor: elegant silk carpets signalled wealth and distinction, while Sufis and Dervishes (who shunned earthly m...

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weaving pilgrim clothes

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Wedding ceremony in West Azarbayjan

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White pottery Zenouz

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All stages of making clay in this way are applied traditionally the and mainly conclude Application containers such as plate, bowl, cup, saucers, water jug, teapot, etc. coverage of This clay is done with two types of Pottery glazes , colorless Transparant and turquoise Transparant t...

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White pottery Zenouz

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Pottery with white soil with a history of domestic Pottery in Zenouz are closely linked. Because of its white Zenouz soil used for making crockery and dishes that come from it, had similarities to the Chinese. In this way, all the steps of making Pottery style is very traditional and ...

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Wood carving

Wood carving

Wood carving is a form of working wood by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object. The phrase may also re...

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Wooden Handicraft

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Making wooden handicrafts was common in Hamadan city from a long time ago. Wooden handicrafts such as ternary and fretwork are so common in this province. Fretwork means woodcarving. Woodcarving was common in Iran from many years ago. The oldest door which has fretwork is preserving i...

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Woodworking

Woodworking

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