The ancient art of felt rug making

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(31 Jul 2010) NO ACCESS BBC PERSIA / VOA PERSIAN AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately shut down that organisation in Tehran. AP Television Roudsar - Gilan Province - 29.06.2010 1. Wide exterior of felt-carpet-making workplace 2. Close-up of tool applied by the felt-maker to beat the wool fibre and to make the wool ready for felting 3. Mid of man separating wool fibres by constantly hitting his bow-like tool 4. Pan from coloured wool to felt-maker wetting and putting colourful threads in an oval shape as the preliminary felt sketch 5. Close-up of felt-maker's hand using blue threads to form a margin around oval-shaped felt 6. Low-angle of man working 7. Close-up of coloured fibres to be used in making the felt with man working in background 8. Close-up of felt-maker's face 9. High-angle of man working 10. Close-up of flowers sketched over the felt with red and yellow threads 11. Mid of man completing sketching of the felt 12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Abdollah Hallaj Rezaie, felt-maker: "I weave the wool to make threads and colour them here. When sketching of the felt is over, I spread the beaten wool on it which is the foundation of work and we call it the mould. When spreading the wool is done, I pour hot water on it and then roll it." 13. Close-up of felt-maker spreading the beaten wool on the felt sketch laid out on a mat 14. Tilt-down of Abdollah scattering beaten wool over the felt 15. Wide of Abdollah in his workplace 16. Tilt-up from beaten sheep wool to Abdollah spreading them on the felt 17. Close-up of a prepared felt 18. Wide of Abdollah pouring hot water on the wools with a kettle 19. Abdollah rolling the felt 20. Close-up of hand rolling the felt 21. Various of Abdollah rolling the felt in different direction 22. Tilt-down from Abdollah's hand to his feet pushing the rolled felt 23. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Abdollah Hallaj Rezaie, felt-maker: "It is not economical anymore. Today young people are not interested in hard work and selling felt is not profitable anymore, because machine woven carpets have taken over the market. These new carpets were not popular before and the felt carpet used to rule the market then." 24. Tilt-up of Abdollah standing on the felt and rolling in backward 25. Mid of felt-maker's feet on rolled felt 26. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Sarvar Abbaspour, Abdollah Hallaj Rezaie's wife: "My children managed to get their college degree and find a job through the income we earn from this job and we have no other way to make a living except making felt." 27. Close-up of Sarvar's feet pedalling a machine used for making wool threads 28. Pan from Sarvar speaking with her husband to Abdollah doing the final stages of making the felt 29. Close-up of prepared felt laying on the floor AP Television Ramsar - Mazandaran Province - 29.06.2010 30. Wide of market selling felt and other handicrafts 31. Close-up of pieces of felt for sale 32. Mid of woman looking at a felt 33. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Shah Mohammadi (no first name given), custumer: "Unfortunately carpets have been substituted felts. For example, a person like me who has a child does not lay out a felt in their room because it has tiny filaments. If people knew the benefits of felts such as they stay dry, are warm and are good for leg pain, and if they knew that how much effort and passion has been spent in making them, they would definitely frame them and put them on their walls." 36. Wide of market Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/fb945a093aa1abb8a4e50688354a6f5f