Carpet is one of the oldest and most ancient traditional arts that in addition to satisfying practical needs, reflects beliefs, myths and other conceptions. These concepts are manifested in the context of rugs, with colorful and beautiful motifs informed by inspiration. In this paper, in addition to identification of animal motifs in the rural rugs of Hamadan, these motifs have been classified ...

Pre-historic pottery investigating is one of the sources that provide a lot of information about the life and art of that time. Among Iranian arts, Pottery is of a greater antiquity, originality and importance and represents people’s culture, beliefs and traditions more than any other art. After basket weaving, pottery has been the first lasting art of mankind. By investigating earthenware moti...

The textile of the Bakhtiarian's nomadic have many changes during of periods .This alterations will have continued, but some of that ,have a collection of designs that come from the mind of Bakhtiarian woman ,who teach them from her deceased, these study tried to collect the motifs that have many unknown meanings. The aim of this research is to introduce these motifs and try to field study. But...

Ghelimche Metkazin village in addition to the abundance of role, mentally woven and of a simple structure. The variety of animal and plant designs and understandable  geometric shapes and the creation of creative design during the drawing of motifs on the margin and the text and the way weavers adapted from the nature and environment of life and the re-imaging of images has led to a variety of ...

The design of rug and carpets (kilim) have artistic values and capacities which are not known enough for the artists and scholars.  As some of such motifs belonging to the carpets of the city of Jiroft have been extracted by the creative mind of artist without any direct connection with the nature, this paper focuses on such motifs which are similar to natural elements in their visual repr...