Kurds of Khorasan regions live in its northern regions and are called kurmanj. During the rule of the Safavid dynasty, Kurds of Turkey, Syria and Caucasus in west Azerbaijan were moved to Khorasan to evade invasions of the Ottomans and were settled there. This movement of Kurds from Western Iran to northern Khorasan and their adjacency with Balooch and Turkmen people influenced their carpet wea...

 Garden and Persian carpets of among the oldest phenomena in the course of history. There are some points which indicate that garden and carpet have been closely connected. Chaharbagh structures were important works of ancient pre-Islamic Iran, at Achaemenid and Sassanid periods and Ilkhanid era, especially in the Timurid and Safavid era. Like Chaharbagh style, Chaharbagh or Golestan motif...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, coinciding with the extensive cultural and economic developments in the West, the first World Exhibition of Oriental Handmade Carpets was held in the Austrian Empire. Regarding to the importance of carpets in the political and economic life of Iran in that period, the purpose of this study is to identify the fields of formation and results of the ex...

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 ...

This study is to identify and evaluate elements that were used in the Identity document of museum objects to describe and manage the information of museum’s carpets. This study is an applied study which implemented by documentary study method. The data were gathered by analysis of identity document of carpets in museums inside and outside the country. The results can help in integrating a...

Patterns in Iranian art should be called message painting and expression painting, which sometimes manifests itself directly and sometimes in symbolic language. One of the places of expression and emergence of symbols in Iran is the "carpet". In addition to the traditional and local aspects, these patterns and expressions can express the creative mind influenced by the environment around the ca...