Quarterly Scientific-Research Goljaam

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The advent of digital implements and techniques in the modern world, has changed the quality of the human life and also has influenced the traditional art of the nations. The traditional design as the most important step which the artistic creation take place in, has been affected by these evolutions and specially the arts like carpet are being influenced the most. Due to the two decades passing from entrance and stabilization of digital implements and techniques in Iran carpet design, it is indispensable to study their impacts in order to identify the threats and opportunities of these new tools in traditional art. On the other hand, artists and experts of this scope are the most competent references to evaluate the quality of these impacts. Accordingly, this study has been conducted to determine the impacts of digital implements and techniques on the traditional design through analyzing the ideas of the experts working in Iran carpet design scope. This is a qualitative research and its data has been collected through the library and the field survey methods by the in-depth interview with 9 persons of carpet design experts and artists and has been organized by Delphi method. Then they have been analyzed in the framework of grounded theory. The consequences of this study show that the carpet design experts have a consensus on synthesized attitude, admission of computer as a necessity or an opportunity and using it to preserve the artistic and cultural identity.
 

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Today, increasing competition in the business environment is increasingly encouraging organizations to deliver quality products based on customer demands. In the meantime, the carpet industry is no exception to this one as one of the oldest Iranian industries. In recent years, the focus has been on meeting the demands of customers and more orbital ones. One of the methods for accurately identifying customers' expectations is the method of quality function deployment. In this regard, the present research seeks to identify and apply the views and wishes of customers in the design of handmade carpets in order to adapt to their interests and needs. To determine the expectations and demands of customers and identify the design and engineering requirements of the decision team which includes 12 experts and experts in the field of marketing and sales, design and carpet engineering with a minimum of 15 years of work experience. Then, by using the fuzzy hierarchy process analysis technique, the preference criteria were determined. After completing the matrices of the house of quality, the results indicate that the demand was not like sarkaji and coordination of carpet colors, is most important. Also, the product design matrix output showed that standard Warp fluff and standard Warp sleave great importance. In addition, operations of knotting and carpet payment are the most important operations that companies must pay special attention to in order to increase customer satisfaction from handmade carpets.
 

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A subjective rug is weaved in a border and distant village named Aqdash, a subsidiary district of Kalat-e-Naderi County in Khorasan-e-Razavi Province and it is called “Pelas” or “Turkish Pelas” by the villagers of the region. The knitting of Pelas by the women of the village, even with the existence of 170 active knitting devices in a village accommodating 167 households, is illustrative of the common and live culture of the village. The global fame of the manually-woven Iranian carpets and the various knitting styles in the variegated regions make it necessary to do research regarding the identification of the design and image and introducing of techniques of knitting such manually woven carpets. Subjective images have always been directly associated with the original culture and their gradual destruction are enumerated amongst the today’s harms of rug production for which reason the collecting and registering of these images are of great importance. The question raised in the present study is that what are the contents of the images knitted in the Aqdash rugs and what meanings do they convey in the culture of the village? The primary goal of the present study is finding the relationship between the image concepts of these rugs and the customary culture of Aqdash village. According to the change in the lifestyle and the importance of ecology during the recent years, the study of the sub-cultures and the recognition of the different ecologies within the cultural ground of the region, popularization of Aqdash rug and, subsequently, booming of the economy and earning of income for the residents therein are amongst the other goals of the present research paper. The present study has been conducted based on a descriptive-analytical method. Besides through preliminary library researches, the information and data presented in the present study have been collected based interviews, observation and the author’s familiarity with the village culture. The study results indicated that the pictures of such natural elements as the village’s habitat and animals have been knitted in the images hence the rugs are found directly associated with the life of the people in Aqdash village. Climatic and geographical conditions of the region and the formation of a sub-culture in the past are amongst the environmental factors instigating the continuation of rug-weaving in Aqdash.

 

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Hunting and animal’s combat design of animals in the Safavid era has been reflected in various compositions of carpet designs as they are combined with Floral, Medallion, and Corner and Medallion patterns. One of the significant examples of a hunting ground corner and Medallion carpet are the ones held in the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan. In this carpet, hustling hunting scenes have been depicted. The present study aimed to explain the design method of this carpet. The research method was descriptive-analytical and the data were collected from library. The data were analyzed qualitatively using structural analysis method and based on the existing standards governing the design of Iranian carpets in the Safavid era.  The results of the research indicated that this carpet has had a two-layer design. The first layer, designed in form of Corner and Medallion, has been performed by ¼, and by making minor changes, it becomes ½ and in the second layer the hunting scene added to design through ½. The elements used in this carpet's patterns include: Medallion, inscription, Upper-Medallion[1], corner, background, borders and hunting scene, as the latter plays a prevailing role on the carpet. The Medallion-bound line [2]is designed by way of 1/16, turning ¼ after three repetitions. The Medallion design was recessed or built-in. After the Medallion-bound line is completed, the inscription and the Upper-Medallion added as ½, with the same part used as the carpet corner and the background is decorated with Khatai motifs. This carpet has four rows of borders. The outer border and the main border are designed by reflective method and the two inner borders are designed by transfer method.

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Time, its concept, and its way of perception and expression are among the topics of interest in different fields of human thought. The way of looking at the time has caused to various opinions about its nature.The carpet artists of the Qajar era, influenced by the process of transformations in different fields, acquired new experiences in designing than in previous periods. Faced with phenomena like time, artists represented it according to their subjective and objective universe and the capacities of the carpet.The problem of this research is the interpretation and understanding of time in the design and pattern of the Qajar carpet as a text medium, based on the proposition of "understanding" in Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutic approach. Based on the necessity of knowing the different aspects of carpets, including the representational capacity and implications of the meanings of the design and pattern of carpets, the purpose of this article is to identify the time, quality, and identity of its types in Qajar carpets.
The main questions for this research are: What does the representation of time look like in the Qajar rug? How to explain the understanding of time and the identity of its types in the carpet of Qajar based on the philosophic hermeneutic of Gadamer? To get answers to the research questions, the five samples of the Qajar carpet pattern were selected by a non-probability method and studied based on the content analysis method. The nature of this research is basic in terms of qualitative research. The method of data collecting is the documentary- library and artworks observation, and the means of collecting information are research sheets and pictures. Based on the findings, time on the Qajar carpet was recorded qualitatively and quantitatively with related signs.Ritual events, mythological thoughts, and traditions, different writings, creating movement and time sequence using spatial contrast, visual elements, reading writings, leveling the work, narrative and its elements, using symbols referring to time, They are one of the generative preconceptions of time.and with denotation and connotation signification and the re-reading of texts absent from the work, they cause mental association and intuitive understanding of the types of time on the carpet. In addition, the dominant discourses in the Qajar period were effective in the way that society and the carpet artist faced the times and its types.King power and authority, nationalism, traditionalism, modernism, myth and religion are among the most significant of these discourses.
 

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Safavid ruling dynasty may be considered as a founder of the social government which caused the establishments and social, political, economic and religious offices were active under the protection of a relatively centralized administrative structure. They had already no any formal position in governments and courts. In this period, appropriate cultural policy-makings and relative security of cities and villages provided necessary bases in order to thrive many arts and techniques. Carpet weaving was one of these most significant arts. The main purpose of this article is to analyze the various aspects of the importance of carpets for the Safavid court and, consequently, to identify the different types of relationship between the central government and the production of this product. The research uses a historic approach and an analytic-descriptive method. To achieve the purpose of the research, in addition to valid historical and research sources, samples of carpets of that period have also been studied.
In the process of conducting this research, the importance of the activities related to the production and supply of carpets and the reasons for supervising them were examined from four aspects: religious and social, commercial, tax and artistic income.. Then, a direct and indirect role of the officials like Bashi and Moshrif  became clear in this process. Furthermore, by studying remained documents, it is possible to reconstruct the existence of professional relations between artists active in the field of writing and book decoration with the society that produces court carpets.

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Abstract
Kilim handicrafts are common women's craftworks in some nomadic and rural areas of Iran. These handicrafts have various textures and patterns in different parts of the country, which in some parts are representative of the culture of that region. One of the common arts in Lorestan province is kilim weaving, using traditional patterns that have undergone various changes over time. Some of the prominent features of this art in this region ar symmetry, variety, abstraction, and graphicity of the designs. The designs of Lorestan kilims have been indicants of the people's beliefs, convictions and traditions which have been passed down from generation to generation, for many years. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the patterns of Lorestan kilim and the effective factors of their emergence. The main purpose of this study is to study the most important designs used on the carpets of Kuhdasht city with the influence of the culture of the people of the region and also the effective factors in their emergence. The main questions of this research are posed as follows; How many types of hand-woven kilims are in this region? And which factor has been effective in the emergence of Lorestan kilim's patterns and designs? The research method of this study is descriptive-analytical. Data collection method of the study is library and field. This study deals with qualitative analysis of the studied samples. The results of this study indicate that the patterns woven in Lorestan kilims are as following: Ritual and mythological motifs (cypress, the tree of life (pine) along with chamois, the Mother Goddess, mountain), animal and bird motifs (chamois, horse, rooster, duck), motifs of banquets and mourning ceremonies (dance), plant motifs and motifs derived from religious beliefs (patterns of the Howz). It can also be said that most of the designs used in these handicrafts have been continually inspired by the designs of Lorestan bronze up to this day.
 

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Aesthetics is one of the important topics in the evaluation of works of art and can be examined from two aspects, objective and subjective. Rural and Tribal ruges in Iran are the result of the taste and mental creativity of weavers and designers who, despite being mentally woven, have a lot of harmony. The purpose of this study is to analyze the visual aesthetics of such carpets and due to their diversity and to avoid the breadth of the subject, studies the two designs from the region Yalmeh and Minakhani with this question: How are the principles of objective aesthetics reflected in the designs of Medallion and Brick-shaped Yalmeh and Minakhani? This qualitative research has been done by descriptive-analytical method and using library resources and based on Mikel Dufrenne's objective view of aesthetics and Ocvirk's view and visual principles, which is one of the main sub-branches of the objective aesthetic view. The results show that the correct structure of visual principles in rural carpet motifs as an art object leads to aesthetic perception of these works by the audience so that seven factors of Ocvirk approach including harmony, proportion, balance, motion, hegemony and brevity in the design and color of the studied samples are evident and only in Minakhani rugs, the principle of design diversity is less due to the repetition of patterns. Also, maintaining geometric proportions and observing visual and symbolic principles in form and color are other components of aesthetics in them
 

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Mahdishahr (Sangsar) located in Semnan Province is the location of residence of Sangsari tribes, which are among the original Iranian tribes. The carpet weaving in the Sangsar area is very old due to the nomadic life, but the urban carpet weaving is probably about one hundred-years-old. Sangsar Rug designs have been influenced by the virtu, tastes, social and climatic circumstances of the inhabitants of the region over the past years, and indigenous and cultural concepts have played a substantial role in the evolution and diversity of the design. Despite having native raw materials and self-painted wools, one of the features of Sangsar Rug is the use of the design and pattern of carpets in reputable areas of carpet weaving that are seen in fewer clans or similar tribes. Sangsari weavers wove various designs such as four-season, lachak (a typical scarf), and bergamot, subsoil, bush, carpet tableau, etc. based on the plan or by modelling (taking patterns) of urban carpets back (tail) of other areas. One of the most diverse designs, Introducing the characteristics and identification of the types of woven altar carpets, available and available in the region in the last one hundred years.which is woven in different types and dimensions in this area, is the mehrab design.

The main question of the research is how the mehrab design is woven in Sangsar region and which geographical areas do the origin of the designs woven in Sangsar mehrab carpets go back to? This research has been carried out in a descriptive-analytical way and in the form of a field and document study, and the purpose of its implementation, in addition to getting to know the method of carpet weaving in the Sangsar region, is to introduce the characteristics and identify the types of woven altar carpets that are available and available in the region. It is the last hundred years.
The findings of the research show that local weavers have been able to design and implement a variety of altar designs such as vase-pillar altar, tree-pillar, tree-animal, vase-cedar, vase-bergamot and two-sided altar-vase with local features according to order or by copying the carpets from the areas such as Qom, Isfahan and Kashan, Hamedan, Ravar Kerman and modeling Sangsar ornaments.
 

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Tasheer Carpets are among Eisa Bahdori’s works in carpet designing, which enjoy special structural and visual features. These carpets illustrate a single theme havingbeen designed and woven in three different ways, which evidences the capabilities of their creative designer. Therefore, this article aims at the visual analysis of Bahdori’s trilogy through a comparative approach. The research method is descriptive-analytical, and the data have been collected through field study (interviews and photography of works) as well as library study. The purpose of the study is to answer this main question: what are the commonalities and differences of the structural features of designs and patterns in Eisa Bahadori’s carpet trilogy concerning the theme of Tasheer?
 The results indicates that a repetition of a number of motifs, along partial similarities in rotation of arabesque, is common in all three carpets; among these motifs, one can note the presence of animals (ibex, deer, tigers, lions, and bears), birds (pheasants, humpbacks, and falcons),mythological animals (Simurgh and dragons), vase designs, and combat scenesbetween Simurgh and pheasant. In addition to these commonalities, the structures of carpets in terms of the presence or absence of toranj and sar-toranj as well as their shape (oval, circle), the coloring of the background and borders, and even the way the creatures and vegetal elements are pictured have their unique visual values. ​​Such visual features distinguish each carpet from the other, despite their single theme of Tasheer, and reveal a process of growth in the designing of these three carpets