Exhibition of Baluchi Needlework

Iranian Artists Forum is to host traditional needlework of the late artist Mahtab Norouzi, a veteran of Baluchi handicraft, July 13-18.
The event in Tehran will honor works of the artist from Sistan and Baluchestan Province in southeast of Iran, at a ceremony with live traditional music of the region. It will also show handicraft made by young rural girls from the province, ISNA reported on its Persian website.
The Baluch artist, who worked for almost five decades on needlework, received a first degree art certificate from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in 2007. She died at the age of 78 in 2012.