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Mashhad Lalejin
WCC - World Gemstones City 2016 WCC - World Pottery City 2016
• with 39 known different varieties of gemstone
• situated only 25 kilometers away from Hamadan,
• More than 16 thousand registered artisans are busy in the the ancient capital of Iran.
field in nearly 500 different workshops. • this place is famous for its unique ceramic and pottery handicrafts
art, as it is known as the Capital of Middle-East Pottery.
• With 9 tons of exploitation a year, Agate (Aghigh) is the most
popular gemstone, following by 5 tons of turquoise (Firouzeh). • About 80 percent of the nearly 20 thousand residents of Lalejin
are busy in the field of pottery in about one thousand workshops.
• Mashhad has about 90 percent of gemstone workshops of the • In Lalejin, 5000 types of potteries are produced in 28 general
country categories.
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