Handicrafts
Handicrafts are a part of art and industry, witch is made by exploiting native raw materials and doing fundamental work with hand and manual traditional tools and is led to appear products that indicate the taste and mental creativity of their makers. The most important handicrafts of Yazd province are: rug, small carpets, Killim (short-napped coarsr carpets), velvet, brocade, Chador Shab, handkerchief, mercerized, Jim weaving (manual cotton cloth weaving industry), damask (woven of silk thread), Ejrami (a kind of hand-woven cloth), bed sheet, Dandani or Gol-e Khord (Zoroastrians' material cloth), cashmere, curtain, Zilou (pileless carpet), carpet sheet, canvas, bundle, lion-cloth, bathing-flannel glove,saddle-bag, blanket, ...

...earthenware, ceramic, mat, tile and Giveh (light cotton summer shoes). Carpet weaving, cashmere weaving, Zilou weaving, pottery, ceramics and tile making are enjoying special importance among the handicrafts. Confectionery has a long background in Yazd. Different traditional cakes and candies are baked in Yazd, like; Baghlava (a kind of pastry usually cut out in lozenges), Ghottab (akind of candy), Loz-e Nargil (lozenge shaped confectionery rnade of coconut), Loz-e Bidmeshk (Egyptian willow or almond), Loz-e Pesteh (pistachio), Parhmak (cotton candy), Nan- Berenji (kind of rice candy) and Hajji-Badarn (confectionary containing shelled almond). Confectioners of Yazd are called 'Khalifeh'. These skillful Khatifehs have backed handmade cakes and candies, since 70 years ago.