Kerman_pateh

Patteh is a kind of iranian needle-works. Color and woven strings are sewed on the wide cloth or shawl in the designs of bute, sarv and toranj which created beautiful designs that are the result of endeavor of hard-working girls and women of kerman. Pateh consists of two parts: The background of the shawl named ariz and the colourful and wooly spinners that is called pateh. Both cloth and spinner are woolen and provided in different colours. Pateh is made only in kerman; moreover, sewing pateh is current in all township and villages around kerman province, particularly in sirjan and rafsanjan. These designs have root in the iranian culture and civilization. One of the most beautiful "pateh" which has a unique sewing is the cover of shah nematollah vali tomb. It has been sewed in 1285 ah. It is the result of two year enduring work of sixteen women of kerman on a cloth at 355 cm in length and 210 cm in width. Of course there are other samples of this art throughout kerman.