Handicrafts in Iran include a wide variety of crafts and traditional arts that involve making products while complying with ritual and religious canons, focusing on creativity, taste, and local aesthetics using available raw materials. The production process, individually or in groups, is mainly done by hand, using special tools. Since discovering and listing all the majors is hardly feasible due to existing identical fields, which are called with numerous locally different names, 18 main groups and 299 subdivisions have been identified until 2023 by the Department of Handicrafts and Traditional Arts at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts (MCTH).