One of the prosperous periods of Persian commercial carpet industry is the Safavid era especially the 10th and 11th centuries (A.H.). Governments’ attention to arts and artists and expanding the facilities on the one hand, and willingness of other artists such as illumination artists and Persian painters’ to beautiful designs for carpets, along with the progress of the dyeing indust...

Iranian artists and craftsmen have been interested in decorations for a long time. Geometric, animal and plant motifs and sometimes a line in various combinations adorned all or part of their handmade works. The art of carpet weaving hasn't been excluded. Carpet designers have created beautiful and sometimes unique designs by the influence of religion, politics, culture and other common arts du...

Hand-woven tribal and urban carpets are among the most valuable treasures of Iranian culture and art which have been overlooked in the past few decades. As carpet designs and forms reflect culture and life style of our ancestors and connect the past and the present, they deserves due attention. Reviving these designs and forms is way to preserve this cultural heritage. This article is an attemp...

Today we know that the main reason for usage of calligraphy in carpet design was to state and explain the religious content instead of decorative role – such as the other Islamic functional arts. According to that, most of carpets that contain inscriptions are the Mihrabi Carpets that almost use for praying. Along with the Mihrabi Carpets that are often used in religious functions, calligraphy ...

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 th...

Birjand is located in the east of Iran and is the center of South Khorasan province. Birjand's carpets have its own characteristics in terms of motifs, coloring and structure that are outlined in this paper. Tiny fish is among the most widely used and popular motifs on the carpets of Birjand. This original and old motif is woven now in more than half of such carpets and can be seen on approxima...

With the beginning of the 8th century AH / 14 AD, until the end of the 10th century AH /16 AD, One of the illustrious era of Iranian carpets occurs, due to the importance of the stylistic changes of hand-woven carpets in this era, many ambiguities have been created in the quiddity of Iranian carpets due to the small number of existing examples. Despite the few references in this era, including ...

Iran’s carpet owes its basic part of artistic aspect to its own patterns and motifs. The transference of these patterns on woven carpets is done in different methods including “plan handkerchiefs”. Plans handkerchief acts as a mediator between the mind of the designer artist and the hands of the weaver artist. These patterns which are placed on cloths, besides their innate rol...

Since some part of cultural entrepreneurship pays attention to entrepreneurship in arena of art and handicrafts, and handmade carpet is one of the oldest and most important handicrafts in Iran, paying attention to carpet is really prominent. Paying attention to originality of this native art, production and exportation of handmade carpets for having a share in competitive market and development...

Iranian carpets have always had a function beyond just hand- woven. By studying the designs and motifs of this valuable Iranian handicraft, it can be said that the designs and structures have some kind of roots in the culture of this land. The carpet can also be called the cultural identity of Iran. One of the most interesting functions of Iranian carpets in the Qajar period is to use it as a m...