Dr Ali Asghar Shirzai, Mr Davood Shadlou,
Volume 5, Issue 14 (3-2010)
Abstract
Regarding the design, pattern and color of Timurid carpets, although no sound and safe one of such period has been survived, there are so many paintings addressing the carpets that most probably have been produced in that time. These paintings are mostly accessible from various manuscripts that have been developed by Timurid princes and patrons. We can even reproduce a whole carpet by analyzing these paintings. One of such manuscripts was created in Harat in the royal library of Baysonghor Mirza under supervising of Ja’far Tabrizi and is dated back to 1429, namely “Shanameh-ye-Baysonghori”. In this paper we are going to analyze six paintings of the manuscript, and to determine the design, pattern, color and even designers of Timurid carpets. This research is descriptive-analytical in nature and its necessity is due to understanding the carpets of the past eras and introducing them to designers and artists of nowadays carpet industry.
Davood Shadlou, Phd Ali Asghar Shirazi,
Volume 13, Issue 32 (autumn and winter 2018)
Abstract
During 19th century a wave of orientalism culminated and lots of orientalists departed for the eastern lands with various motivations. They started to research and write on the eastern societies, cultures, civilizations and arts, including carpets. Historiography, study of motives and designs and weave-geography of eastern carpets were of the most important points orientalists focused on. This paper is to recognize and study on the orientalists’ resources and their approach to the Iranian carpet and also to find their faults.
This is a documentary research and its method is descriptive and analytical. The statistical population is the orientalists’ available written works (books, articles and exhibition catalogues) which are written between 1850 and 1950. The method of analysis is qualitative.
The research’s results indicate orientalists’ approaches are categorized into two basic groups (Berlin and Wien Schools), but their written works cannot be assumed as historiography, but as historical sources.
The main defects in orientalists’ studies are: their mere focus on museum carpets and library studies, inattention to empirical research, assuming their data and results as definite facts, determining false weave places for carpets, faults in dating, inattention to the carpets’ origins and cultural grounds. However, the Iranian researchers are deeply influenced by the orientalists’ researches and historiographies, and this paper focuses on these influences.
Saeedeh Rafiei, Davood Shadlou,
Volume 17, Issue 40 (9-2021)
Abstract
In the last decade, biocompatible natural dyes with antimicrobial properties have been given much attention to protect dyed fibers in handwoven carpets against microorganisms. In this research, the leaves of 6 native plants of Fars province, including Amygdalus scoparia (Arjan), Pistacia atlantica (Baneh), Carica Ficus, Shirazi thyme, Shirazi Askari grape (Vinifera) and Juglans, were used as natural dyes for wool dyeing in the presence of eight different metal mordants. The reflective spectra of the dyed samples were analyzed by a reflective spectrophotometer. In addition, the color characteristics, the brightness of the dyed samples, the variety of color shades in the presence of different mordents, washing and light fastness as well as the antibacterial properties of the dyed wool were evaluated. The results of reflection spectroscopy showed that dyed samples with the leaves of Argan, grape, thyme and fig plants had negative a* and positive b* values, which confirms their green and yellow undertones, While, dyed samples with the leaves of baneh and Juglans trees had positive a* and b* values, which proves the red and yellow undertones of these samples. Wool fibers dyed with Argan leaves, figs and thyme in the presence of different metal teeth created the most variety of colors. Ivory, cream, green, brown, olive, orange, brick and purple colors were created on wool fibers in the presence of the leaves of these plants along with different mordents. The light and washing fastness of dyed samples with all the mentioned dyes were acceptable. Wool dyed with thyme and Pistacia atlantica leaves extract showed the maximum percentage of inhibition (99%) against two types of bacteria, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.
