tombstones have been mirrors of the culture and customs of traditional societies in iran. in pristine areas such as the city of the province of ilam; darreh-shahr, decorative motifs of tombstones are a gateway to the world of religious and cultural thoughts of the people of this land. the city darreh-shahr cemetery tombstones are similar to other iran regions and abdanan tombstones in ilam, ado...

swastika designs applied for ornamenting in many different arts before islamic period. these designs have important role in architecture ornaments at islamic period. in this paper we study concepts, aesthetic and evolution of these designs in islamic period architecture ornaments from beginning to end of zand and ghajar era. the thoughtful artists of islamic periods comprehended from the beginn...

saqqā-ḵāna artists looked to cults, rituals, and visual elements of folk and local vernacular culture for inspiration. although many of these items appeared crude in their execution and lacked the artistic polish of artifacts made by professional calligraphers and painters, and were often created collaboratively as a kind of street art, their true significance was not lost to these artists. vie...

abstract reliefs are one the most important archaeological evidences to elucidate vague facts of previous cultures. this tradition has a long history in iran`s culture that revitalized in qajarians in different parts of iran, there are forty seven reliefs with engraved decoration in stone collection of taq-i-bustan, too. so far, no report or newsletter about qajarian reliefs in taq-i-bustan col...

in islamic architecture, the architect always tried to decorate the internal and external areas in different ways. one type of these decorations is called brick working, which was current in pre-ilkhanid, ilkhanid period, and after this period. this decoration was used in two ways. in ilkhanid period, the architect used a type of brick which was exactly formed in favorite shapes before baking. ...

Decorative reliefs are widely used for e.g. packaging and porcelain design. In periodic reliefs, the relief repeats a pattern, for example all the way around an underlying surface of revolution. Reverseengineering of existing reliefs allows them to be re-applied to different base surfaces; we show here how to segment a single repeat unit of a periodic relief starting from a scanned triangle mes...