After a survey on one hundred and thirty samples of Kurmanji Kilims and extraction of their natural motifs, this study is trying to propose a typology of this motifs and characterize their methods of composition. The data reviewed in this article, have been gathered in a field and documentary research. The patterns of the Kurmanji Kilim can be categorized into four groups: 1. Natural motifs, 2....

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 Chaleshtar castle in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari is decorated with varied and unique stone herbal, human and animal ornaments. In the decoration of this Qajar building, the traces of the three national, religious, and foreign patterns of the Qajar period are observed, especially in human designs. Resemblance of human ornaments in this building with aforementioned patterns influenced by nativ...

if the precise implementation of the principle of proportion and:balance between the violation and the penalty as well as the other dimensions could be considered as a stick yard for the imptementation of justice any lack of preciseness in carrying out such principle would not indeed be much too far from injustice . naturally ,if it would be imagined that the objective of balance between...

Shahsevan nomads live in Northwest of Iran. This tribe was established in Safavid era which is one of the magnificent periods in the Iranian history, as a powerful army by Shah Abbas I to support Ghezelbash soldiers as the strong defending forces of the country to encounter the foreign powers. The tribe was scattered in different historical periods to settle in different areas such as the centr...