Hamedan-2018

Lalejin City of Pottery World

The magnificent landscapes from the hills of Hekmataneh and the palaces of Laodissa and the ancient hills of Gian Nahavand Tapeh Pisa in Hamedan, Peri Malayer hills and ... are believed to date several thousand years of this art in Hamedan province. According to this historical record, this art is still popular in this province and has made it the most important pole for producing pottery in Iran and the region. As of last date, there are 550 workshops in Hamedan, 30 workshops in Malayer, 17 workshops in Thiesserkan, 19 workshops in Razan, 1000 workshops in Laljin, 20 workshops in spring, 3 workshops in Dahmamenne, 3 workshops in Dahabardahang, 14 workshops in Nahavand and 56 workshops in Assad. Abad have been identified. A total of 2408 workshops and more than 6296 people working in these workshops are engaged in the production of pottery. The most important pottery production center in Hamedan province is Laljin. In addition to its reputation, Laljin pottery has a worldwide reputation, and Laljin is the capital of Iranian pottery. Aljin (Lahadjin) is one of the northern cities of Hamedan province, located in the Laljin district of Bahar. Based on the solar census of 1385, Lalejin has a population of 14,724 people and is considered the second city in the spring city. The pottery art of the generation has come to the people of the city of Laljin, and pottery is the art of the ancestors of this city, the pottery of this area is of high quality and authenticity, and the people of Laljin still use handcuffs to make pottery. The young Laliginites have continued to inherit the heritage of their fathers, where the Laljin crafts became global. Laligins make the pottery themselves. The city of Lalejin, with a population of 15,000, has 850 pottery workshops and 250 pottery stores, more than 20% of the province's exports to Hamadan province.

The Witchcraft of Soil, Water and Fire

From the time human beings got a decent understanding of the universe and moved from nomadic life to sedentism, clay accompanied him, and we can say that from the ninth millennia B.C clay and pottery is one of the oldest industries of homo sapiens in the world. The homo sapiens began paying more attention to storing his food and water and discovered the viscosity and malleability of clay and began making potteries in different shapes. From that time onwards, the craft of pottery was gradually developed and made widespread. Hamedan’s Lalejin is renowned as Iran’s capital of pottery and from 2017 it has been registered by the brand “ Lalejin, the Universal City of Clay) in World Council of Clay. Some of the townspeople believe the name of the city can be dated back to Genghis Khan (1162-1227) times. According to this story when Genghis Khan’s army passed from Hamedan and entered to the present city of Lalejin, they dispatched some of the city’s people to China so that they learn pottery from them. These people returned to Lalejin after learning the craft and since then the city bore the name “ Lalejin”. This small but beautiful city is located in Hamedan’s north and with a distance of 25 kilometers from it and is considered to be one of the important sites for tourist attraction in the Hamedan province.
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