Ahar is one of the carpet weaving regions in Eastern Azerbaijan. This paper is to document the designs of carpets of this area. Data is collected through surveying, using methods of observation and interviewing weavers, merchants and scholars. Six ‌carpet designs of six villages of this area including Qunigh, Cheshme Vazan, Qurchi Kandy, Haj Abedin Mazre'eh, Kaghalagh and Kalhur are studied and...

Hodud al-Ālam (Boundaries of the World), a geography book from the 3rd century AH/ AD 9th century is the first source that refers to the act of weaving carpets in Tabarestan, northern Iran. This book regards the Tabari carpet as a product of that region to the court of the Abbasid caliphs; however the oldest carpet of Tabarestan known is the Kelardasht carpet. There are four theories about the ...

The main aim of this qualitative study is to recognize the main challenges of Iranian rural hand-made carpet and to explore solutions for policy-making from experts and key informants’ viewpoint. This qualitative study carried out by Grounded theory. The study sample included faculty members, experts of related administrations and institutions, and actors of rural hand-made carpet selected by p...

Carpet experts consider nobility of a Qashqai rug in properties like use of suitable wool fiber, herbaceous dyeing, mental designing and bald painting. These principles were used in a variety of samples of Qashai tribe’s hand-woven carpets. On the other hand, production system in that period was based on the use of existing sources and facilities and motivated by providing financial suppo...

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...

An influencing idea finally develops and gain fame, if not in its own time, certainly in a short period of history. Likewise Suhrawardi's philosophy, within less than a century, has had such an influence in various areas of philosophy, literature, art, culture, etc. in Islamic world especially Iran. "The mediatory world" (Ālam-e Methāl) and "the eighth territory" (Eqlīm-e Ha...

One of the important rural and nomadic occupations in Iran, from ancient times, is the hand of tissues such as Glimm, Jajim and Varni weaving, which has very little information about them due to their raw materials. Meanwhile, there are very few ancient data that can provide information about Iranchr('39')s hand-woven items. The village of Ace, with its cemetery full of gravestones, is one of t...

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