Despite new technologies and numerous textile factories, in some parts of Iran, woolen yarns for handmade carpets are still dyed by traditional dyeing workshops or Boyakhana.
Traditional dyeing refers to dyeing in which, without the intervention of industrial agents and chemicals, boiling wool, cotton or silk coils is done with a group of plants with stable dyes.
Tabriz has been the center of handmade carpets since ancient times, and for this reason, jobs related to carpets are very prosperous. Dyeing is also one of the traditional occupations related to carpet weaving.
In the same workshops, men with white hair amid the heat and steam of large boiling pots working with interest.
They spent their childhood, youth, middle age and all their lives dyeing with their fathers to dye their hair black in a work that is 200 years old in their family.
In the past, many traditional dyeing workshops were active in Tabriz, many of which were closed due to the industrialization of dyeing, and now only a handful of these workshops are operating.
