Turkomani Carpets of the 15th Century, the Beginning of Safavid Exquisite Carpets

Although carpet has a very long history in Iran, the purpose of this article is to study one of the most important periods of Persian art history before the Safavid, Turkomani Period; and one of the most important ways to know these period carpets is the reports of European tourists, especially the Venetian merchantschr('39') from Tabriz, pointing to the beautiful rugs of the Blue Mosque and the silk-woven rugs of the Uzun Hasan courts. In addition to these reports, the pictures of carpets can be seen in the paintings of that period, a typical examples of which are Big Head Shahname, Khamse Nizami and Khavaran Neme belonging to the Turkomani period. And since the Turkmen era, is a prelude to one of the most important periods of the Iranian regime, the Safavids. Therefore, the emphasis on conducting research on Turkmen carpet can be the source of many ambiguities in the carpet of the later period. Therefore, one of the reasons for this research was the lack of special attention to the Turkish carpets by the researchers. Although the study of pre Safavid carpets has its own problems, the lack of carpet documentation and the lack of attention of experts in the field to Turkmen carpets are among the research problems of this section. Despite these problems, the present article can lead to the recognition of the carpets of this period of transition and important. Other goal of this research is extraction of roles and drawings that have the essence of Turkomani carpet and are considered to be the starting of Safavid carpets. In this regard, there have been some research questions, including: What are the characteristic of Turkomani carpetschr('39') motifs? and what effects do it have on Safavid carpets? Research method is historical- analytical-descriptive in the search for fact; the collection of information is a library.