{"id":104263,"date":"2017-03-06T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T09:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/?p=104263"},"modified":"2017-03-08T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T05:24:44","slug":"simple-life-skillful-hands-silk-weaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/2017\/03\/06\/simple-life-skillful-hands-silk-weaving\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple life, skillful hands, silk weaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Balam Jerk, a 400-year-old village in Minudasht city, the northern province of Golestan, with only 210 families is almost unknown.\u00a0 The inhabitants mostly pursue farming, livestock breeding, and on top of everything, sericulture, silk weaving, and yarn spinning. Women of Balam Jerk village are mostly occupied with weaving silk and spinning yarn to make an honest living. They obtain silk from scratch by rearing larvae of silkworms to form cocoons.\u00a0 The silk cloth and yarns woven and spun skillfully will be exported to other cities or in some cases to other countries. While the village has untapped potentials for growth and becoming a tourist hub in the province, people are experiencing economic deprivation. Tehran Times \/ Fatemeh Abedi<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396899.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396899-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396904.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396904.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396904-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396902.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396902.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396902-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396903.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396903.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396903-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396905.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396905-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396907.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396907.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2396907-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balam Jerk, a 400-year-old village in Minudasht city, the northern province of Golestan, with only 210 families is almost unknown.\u00a0 The inhabitants mostly pursue farming, livestock breeding, and on top of everything, sericulture, silk weaving, and yarn spinning. Women of Balam Jerk village are mostly occupied with weaving silk and spinning yarn to make an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/2017\/03\/06\/simple-life-skillful-hands-silk-weaving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simple life, skillful hands, silk weaving<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-4"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Simple life, skillful hands, silk weaving - Iran Mirror<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/2017\/03\/06\/simple-life-skillful-hands-silk-weaving\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Simple life, skillful hands, silk weaving - Iran Mirror\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Balam Jerk, a 400-year-old village in Minudasht city, the northern province of Golestan, with only 210 families is almost unknown.\u00a0 The inhabitants mostly pursue farming, livestock breeding, and on top of everything, sericulture, silk weaving, and yarn spinning. 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