“ Merchants usually call this city “ the Storehouse of Iran” . From the commercial goods we should mention the leather stuff since Hamedan is the city of the tanneries and its people are known for their expertise in the currying of leather from the skin of cows and the sheep and making useful objects and precious commodities from them.”This is the text which “ William Jackson”, the renowned orientalist, wrote about the city in 1902 when he was visiting Hamedan and introduces the city as being very skillful in the leather industry. This matter gets interesting when we observe that the art of making leathers is a hard and arduous task and because of this very reason usually just men pursue this vocation. “Tanning” or “ Tannery” is the art of transforming the putrefiable skin to a natural, beautiful and enduring substance and its presence is essential for all of the everyday necessary items of people from all over the world.
But we cannot talk about Hamedan’s leather industry and say no word of “ Ardashir Yeganegi”, his sobriquet being “ the Master Ardashir Yeganegi”, the founder of the first modern leather factory in Hamedan. Coming from a Zoroastrian family, in 1932 and with the help of one of his friends “ Shahriar Farvardin”, who had been taught the necessary lessons in leather-making, founded the first automated modern leather factory in Hamedan’s Manuchehri neighborhood and was able to manage one of the biggest leather factories of the country in the city of the tanneries.
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