Weaver Tribes
Most of dining clothes and salt containers are woven by tribal women. Those tribes resides in various regions of Iran, each one having special historical precedence and geographical position.

Some of them have turned into villages dwellers in recent centuries and live husbandry and livestock keeping, but also continue weaving and their woven have reserved their tribal particulars, like tribes who have resided in villages of Varamin and Garmsar (near Tehran) and have their dining cloth and salt container.

These tribes weave Sofreh and Namakdan:

Shahseven:
They live in North-west of Iran, but they reside in Northern regions from Aras River and Moqan Plains so far as Eastern part of Tehran and Varamin-Qom environs.

In Moqan and Sabalan, they are more congested, and less in Hashtroud, Khamseh and Saveh.


Kurd
Although Kurd are mostly resided in West Iran, in vallies of Zagros Mountain, kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, Kermanshah and Ilam, but a considerable crowd live in other provinces like Khorasan, Guilan, Mazandaran, Tehran, Fars, Kerman and even Baluchestan.

Outside Iran, Kurd are residing in various lands, mostly in East Turkey, Northern Iraq, Syria and less crowd in Armenia.


Lor
This word is applied generally to a great crowd of people residing in Zagros slopes.

Lor, as Kurd, are one of the primary residents of Iran, since many thousand years.


Qashqai
Qashqai, who have large land under their disposal spreading from Borujen to the coast of Persian Gulf.

They live in summer in cold regions of Zagros slopes and during winter in the lands around Persian Gulf.


Union of Khamseh
This tribe, as known by its name, consists of five different clans:
Inanlu
Baharlu
Nafur
Arab
Baseri
The first three have Turkish language; Arab speak Arabic and Baseri have mixed dialect of Persian-Arabic.

They live somewhere between Izadkhast, Bovanat, Dehbid, Neiriz and Lar.


Tribes of Kerman
When hearing about Kerman carpet, we have mentioned hand-woven of Afshar tribe; but Afshar are not the only tribe weaving in province of Kerman.

There are so many tribes, rather than Afshar clans, have weaving profession, like Baluch, Lor, Lak, Abduqi, Mohammadrezakhani, Hassankhani, Sangchuli, Sohrabi and Mirzahosseini Lor.


Afshar of Kerman
At present, Afshar are scattered around Kerman, mostly in villages near Sirjan, Shahr Babak, Bardsir, Baft, Hajiabad and Jiroft.

Their most crowded center is Sirjan, which has been capital city of province.

Their summer residence is on the slope of Hezar, Lalezar and Arzuieh and their winter place is on Southern regions of Sirjan to Hajiabad and near Bandar Abbas.


Afshar of Khorasan
Afshar of Khorasan, who are migrated from Azerbaijan, at present living in this province (Khorasan).


Baluch
A spacious part of South-east Iran is homeland of people called Baluch.
Baluch are of Iranian origin and of the first residents of Iran.

Their country spreads from Kerman desert and mountains of Bam to frontiers of East Sand and Punjab, In South To Oman Sea and Indian Ocean.

This land is divided between Iran and Pakistan.


Varamin Tribes
Varamin is a rather vast plain, 40 km South of Tehran, at the frontier of Central Desert.

This plain has been an interesting place for livestock and agriculture, since long ago; so has received various tribes of Iran, in two recent centuries, like Zafaranlu, Kurd of Khorasan, Lor of Charmahal, Shahseven of Khamseh, Mianeh and to some extend Damqan, Afshar of Kerman and Khorasan, groups of Qashqai and small number of other tribes.