The making of Iranian cashmere, called termeh, dates back around 400 years to the Safavid era. At the time, in this province of Yazd, the Zoroastrians wove the termh by hand with which they made ceremonial clothes. At present, this very expensive fabric is produced thanks to the knitting looms.
 Its making requires meticulous work, and uses silk, cotton, wool or pile fibers knitted with orange, black, red, brown and green backgrounds. The termh is used as a napkin or tablecloth, to cover furniture or as gifts during ceremonies or parties.
 Yazd is famous for being the city of underground canals, prayer, and sobriety (shahr-e ghanât va ghonout va ghenâ'at); in other words, it is the city of the traditional underground canals, whose inhabitants are Moslems and are satisfied with what is distributed to them by divine providence.
 The following techniques: Ghâlibâfi (carpet weaving), Ziloubâfi (making a kind of woven cotton carpet), Sha'erbâfi (Sherbâfi) (making pile fabric), Hassirbâfi (basketwork), Kâshisâzi (making enameled tiles), guivehbâfi (manufacture of cotton slippers), tazhib (illumination), guelimdouzi (kilim weaving), khâtamkâri (marquetry), remain practiced throughout the province and constitute other manual trades by Yazd.