Coffee house / Tearoom / teahouse
- traditionally masculine dominated space
- Naqqal -> Iranian epic storyteller, about painters and telling fantastical stories
- Qahveh Khaneh meaning coffee house in Farsi
- Often having Persian painting -> epic Persian poet, shonome(spelling) ???
- Qahveh Kaneh paintings (around 200 years ago) -> a lot of yellow colors, depicting hero’s story, a lot of epic characters, big and small, a lot of scenes, heros and knights, tragic stories as well, like killing your son without knowing it.
- Paintings are very religious heavy, often about holy characters.
- Example: an important recurring character in these paintings are about ex: two good thief’s and two bad thief’s, about God and humans.
- Acrobats are also a big theme in Iranian paintings!
- Painting about an Persian house: typical tea ceremony with a low table with bigger blanket (called Korsi!)
- The four Temperaments (from specific book?name?) -> Hot & Moist, Hot & Dry, Cold & Moist, Cold & Dry = use in some medicine, not all, risky use. More a holistic approach. Main theme about balance!! Different Teas for different conditions
- example: Iranian Borage = Warm & Moist, Thyme = Warm & Dry, Clove = Warm & Dry, Thyme (not the one in story, different from handpicked) = Warm & Dry, Clove = Warm & Dry, Mint (different temperance depending on liquid or leaf) = cold and dry
- All About Balance!!
- Saffron = Happy effect, ??? = anti-depressant effect
Te making notes
- Saffron tea, grinded
- famous mix! : saffron, black tea & damask rose (squash it for best result, 3 for one pot), 3 spoons of black tee, a little bit boiled saffron, boil for 3 min 100 degrees (other 70 degrees but 2 min) optional : cinnamon in the evening or cardamon cloved
- ex : Valerian, Blue Mallow, mint, hibiscus, mint, Borage, Lemon Verbena Tea,
- Tea time, when is the best time? = Traditional drink depends on position and event, like depending on if it’s a funeral, special funeral tea! Sweet tea = wedding, Guest on your home = welcoming curacy, always bring out the tea, with sweets/snacks.
If it’s a proposal, boy family goes to girls’ family and if the father accept, then they say bring the tea!
- Mirror importance = symbolic themes about refining the soul, mirrors glossy and sincere nature. Considered symbolic of the mystic’s heart. Usually present in every special ceremony, they use mirror with poet’s books and green teas, Mirror is used with architects, mirror arts (?? spelling??) Symbolism, also with eyes.
- Iranian dancing with lid under the cup, celebration and tradition
- Borage and Valeria, good for sleep.
- Blue mallow, very very good for cold and cough!
- Borage, if you use lemon, it changes color!! -> borage and hibiscus, also strong colors
- The amount when doing tea? if it’s strong you can use water to dilute!
- Nabbat = “traditional candy, goes often with sweets that are companions with the tea!
- When you have a guest, very important that the glass has the same shape and set, unpolite of they have a miss match of size, color, or shape.
Overlapping culture comments
1.a) Classic Iranian Women’s tea, with sugar cube = dip your sugar cube quickly in a black tea and eat it quickly!
1.b) The same with rolling a glass on your cheek with the palm of your hand before taking a sip (also the same with sake in Korea)
1.c) comment = grampa used to take a sugar cube under his lip, like snus, and then sipping coffee from the coffee plate
2.a) if you feel bad in your stomach, use stronger mint and Nabbat in your tea! Good for digestion when you feel any problem with your gut, like a traditional recommendation.
2.b) -> reminiscent of postmodern Slavic culture (and other cultures) with coca cola and stomach pain
3.a) Nabbat = “traditional candy”, refined sugar, used with a sort of burning method?
3.b) crystalized sugar lollipops, very Scandinavian
3.c) in the north of Germany, they use brown crystalized sugar, and they pour hot drink over, which gives off a crackling sound when pouring
-Notes while working on the textile
- using coffee as a part of the process, hot glue gun as well, saffron has a strong color as well -> which was used in dying fabrics
- Writing Farsi on the textile
-> Helsinki had an Iranian artist with performance, about cake and divas, having a dans battle, moa attended
- when watching movies and people drink coffee, you want coffee, the same with cigarettes. As well with zoom call and see others drinking tee, giving off a very cozy feeling. Very ritualistic with drinking hot beverages.
- the sound of a sewing machine, rhythmic