Quarterly Scientific-Research Goljaam

The hand-woven products indicate the identity and rich culture of our country, Iran. The weavers of “Bidgeneh village” have knitted faith and love in the warp and weft of their carpets. The Bidgeneh carpet, as one of the manifestations of high culture and art of Iran has been forgotten for many years. In spite of the long history of carpet-knitting in this village, there has been little research on the matter. In this paper, we have tried to revive this art by looking closer at the effective elements which involve in its formation. Initially we have shown that except a few disperse studies on the subject, yet there has not been done a full research on these carpets. Then we have studied pieces of the indigenous carpets and have carried out pathological studies for them. Finally, some methods have been recommended for upgrading and reviving the carpets of this region.

needs of traditional producers. The cooperatives have been formed in Iran three decades ago. Continuation of the economic and social activities of these cooperatives depends on analyzing the ongoing problems. In this study, rural hand-made carpet cooperatives of Hamadan have been investigated. The main objectives of the study include analysis of weaknesses, threats, strengths and opportunities of the cooperatives and analysis of the strategies for strengthening these cooperatives with respect to the results of the pathology. The statistical population of the study includes all members of carpet cooperatives of Hamadan (923 persons) who were selected according to Cochran’s formula and 90 carpet weavers were randomly selected as statistical sample. The most important instrument for data collection was questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and its reliability was calculated using Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient (α=0.79). The analysis of SWOT was also used in this study. The results revealed that satisfaction of the design and new drawings for carpet that cooperative provide is their main strength, limitedness of the facilities of cooperative is their main weaknesses. Suitable position of Iranian carpet in the world is their important opportunity and carpet market volatility is the main threat of the cooperatives. At the end of the paper, four strategies have been offered.

Iranian carpet is a valuable and applied art treasure among the human arts that has been representative of Iranian culture and potentials since ancient times. Over the ages, this glorioushand-woven artwork has been subjected to damage and risks that sometimes have leads to destruction of some of its finest samples.Subsequently, some people have started repairingthe damaged carpetssometimes for earning their livelihood and some due to their passion for art. However, these repairs aren’t always correct and scientific, and lack of proper understanding of damage, damaging elements and lack of required skills in rug restoration have led to accelerated carpet destruction. In this research, damages, extent of damagesas well as scale of damagesare studied in Iranian carpet. So, at first major damaging factors, i.e. human, physical, biological and chemical factors have been studied and then the scale of damages including naps, knots, woofs, and cordshave been dealt with.Subsequently, they are groupedintoinner-structural,outer-structural and marginalgroups. Such classification is more detailed comparing former researches and also presents a new way to grouping the damages. In the field study section, some samples of these three groups along with the reasons for such damages are presented. Research findings show that many of inner-structural damages are related to the phase prior to weaving and during the weaving.Sound perception of the damagingelements and types and level of damage can be used for appropriate restoration without destroying the originality of the carpets.