Articles on Iranian Art

Netiran have assembled a series of articles on a number of subjects including Art. There were 69 articles on art listed here when last checked.
http://netiran.com/clippings.html
Checked 17 November 1998

Dreams of Reality in Persian Art

Born in 1955 in Hamedan, Iran "Capital of ancient Persia", Mohammad Hourian first apprenticed at age 12 to Haj Hosen-I-Eslamiyan, the greatest Persian miniaturist of this century in Iran. At the age of 19, Hourian won public recognition in his first one man show of paintings at the Gallery of the University of Tehran. The following year Hourian became the youngest Iranian artist to be elected to the National Academy of Fine Art.
This site shows some samples of his work.
http://www.hotlinks.com/galleries/hourian/
Checked 17 November 1998

Esfahani Oriental Rugs

For almost a decade, Esfahani Inc. has been importing the finest selection of quality rugs from around the world.
http://www.esfahani.com/
Checked 17 November 1998

Iranian Electronic Musicians Network

Here you will be able to find just about anything about today's Persian music. They hope to provide you with Midi Music Files, samples and programs for professional keyboards, and eventually with Persian Music Sheets. They invite you to help them to extend their collection by contributing to this site.
If you have any musical instruments (Tonbak, Santur, Tar, Samplers, Keyboards, ect...) for sale you can contact them in order to advertise in their site.
http://www.gpg.com/midi/
Checked February 20, 1999

Iranian Food - Recipes

This is part of the main source for Iranian Cultural material in the West and Stanford University. The recipes have been contributed by Iranians.
http://tehran.stanford.edu/Recipes/recipes.html
Checked 17 November 1998

Kereshmeh Records

Kereshmeh Records specialise in the music of Iran, both Classical, Folk and modern music. Their site contains details of new releases, a CD catalog and a list of audio and video cassettes which they distribute directly
http://www.kereshmeh.com/
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Persian Music

This is the best place to start learning about the classical music of Iran. A number of other useful links are also given below.
http://www.campus.cua.edu/www/mesabul/caton.htm
This site contains a more technical article and a comprehensive list of CDs
http://www.medieval.org/music/world/iran.html
Mohammad Reza Gharib has assembled an authoritative collection of articles and examples of Persian music here.
http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/~moh/music/index.html
Ali Zomorod's site contains a few sound clips and pictures of the principal instruments.
http://www.duke.edu/~azomorod/persian2.html
Checked 17 November 1998

Persian Rug Centre

The Persian Rug Center offers decades of experience in all aspects of Oriental Rugs. They claim to be experts in cleaning and restoration and since 1924, direct importers of genuine hand-knotted Oriental Rugs from throughout the world. They are certified appraisers  of all types of handmade rugs.
http://www.persian-rug-center.com/
Checked 17 November 1998

Roxana & Farzin Mokhtarian's Recipes

This is an authoritative and comprehensive collection of traditional recipes.
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/F.Mokhtarian/recipes/index.html
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Shil & Taghi Ilati's Home page - Persian Miniatures

This page introduces Iranian culture and art as well as architecture and graphic art. It will elaborate on the history of Persian Miniature Painting - from its beginning to the present, and provide interesting links to Computer Aided Design and Drafting, 2D, 3D, Animation and Graphic design. Shila and Taghi also present some of their work on these pages.
http://www.cam.org/~ilati/
Checked 17 November 1998

Soor Esrafil Home Page

In addition to pointers to other Iranian material there is an article on carpets which has been translated by Dr. Omid Souresrafil from the persian book The Book of Persian Carpet, A Survey of Finishing Carpet -Designing , Dying and Darning( extracts) by Shirin Souresrafil.
http://marg.ntu.ac.uk/~lotfia/carpet/carpet.html - Australia
http://marg.ntu.ac.uk/~lotfia/carpet/carpet.html - UK mirror
Checked 17 November 1998