Earthenware and glass is also made in small quantities, the latter only for wine-bottles and kalyan water-bowls.

All the best glass is imported from Russia.

A kind of mosaic work called "khatemi," much used in ornamenting boxes and pen-and-ink cases, is turned out in large quantities at Shiraz.

It is pretty and effective, though some of the illustrations on the backs of mirrors, etc., are hardly fit for a drawing-room table.

Caligraphy, or the art of writing, is also carried by the Shirazis to the highest degree of perfection, and they are said to be the best penmen in the East.