There are 25 underglaze painted tiles in Vazir Bathhouse of isfahan that have not been studied and identified yet. These tiles are among the few remaining Kubachi tile samples in their original installation location, which remain untouched from looting. Identifying and introducing the Vazir Bathhouse's tiles are very important to recognize the Kubachi potteries, since the proof of the Kubachi n...

In Buyid period textiles became fairly valuable artifacts as a result of silk fabrics production in Iran. Royal textiles were produced from silk and the inscriptions were either embroidered or woven on them in Kufic or Naskh scripts. The main question in this research is that how the Buyid culture exerted influence on this kind of textile. Incidentally, it is aimed to see how the Buyid period c...

Arab tribe in Fars,which is a branch of Khamse :::::union:::::,enjoys ancient carpet-weaving tradition. All weavers of this tribe belong to Arab Jabbare :::::union:::::. It haslearnt Fars tradition of carpet-weaving sinceadoption of Islam by Iran and has transformed it accordingly. Because of the pastoral and nomadic life, some kinds of bag weavings have been woven by them. Carpetbag is the mos...

In this paper, the specimens woven by the same weaver with identical materials but with four different types of knots, i.e., symmetrical, asymmetrical, jufti and U knots, which their details are given in a previous paper by these authors, are used. The effect of these knots on such physical properties as width of the weave, length of the motifs, length of yarn in a knot and the carpet weight ar...

The pictorial rug of "Layla’s camel" belongs to the Qajar era, in which the central image is occupied by the large body of an "intra-hybrid" camel; the outer shape is realistic and the inside is composed of a large number of small human and animal motifs. Creating patterns of some creatures in this way became popular in Iranian painting from the Timurid period, which reached its peak and popul...