Quarterly Scientific-Research Goljaam

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Tablecloths are used to make bread and tinned food, which is woven by women in numerous rural areas and nomadic tribes. Sistan and Baloochestan province is one of the important areas of plafond in terms of texture and design. The decline in the production of tablecloth, which is affected by the environmental, economic, life-changing and neglected indigenous capacities of women's art in this region, Forgiveness has been part of the cultural and social identity of the art of this region. Therefore, this study was conducted for the first time with the aim of studying the texture structure and table tiling of Sistan and Baluchestan. Data collection was done by field study and library, and descriptive-analytic research method. The results show that the texture structure of the tables is simple, combined, and rolled in three ways. The layout of the tablecloths of Muharramat, Katshad, Terrani, and Infected, and the fifteen columns of the Tablets was identified. The most used images are used in the sense of immortality and rainworship.

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The art of weaving in the territory of Iran is a part of the cultural identity of it`s people. The traditional handicrafts of Sistan and Baluchestan are also considered as an important aspect of this identity. Apart from design and color, many other dimensions of carpet production in this region can be considered as their cultural-religious characteristics. Since the study of the semantic dimensions of an artwork in terms of its creator is much more recognizable,
the present study aims to identify the unknown aspects of the indigenous culture and beliefs of the producers of these crafts by visiting the case study, and it also tries to answer this question that what is the correlation between indigenous rugs of Sistan and Baluchestan and their creators’ cultural traits and religious values.
This research has conducted direct observation and interviews with the natives with the approach of art anthropology and the methodology of ethnography in the region, and then through data coding in three levels of open, axial, and selective coding has attempted to classify them.
The results show that elements comprising the carpets in the Sistan and Baluchestan region, from their initial stages to the end, have wide semantic dimensions so that even the most trivial of them have deep roots in the culture and beliefs of its natives. Specific rituals for weaving, belief in sore eyes, composing special poems during weaving, washing ceremonies, etc. are a part of this elements. In this province, apart from its practical aspects, carpet is considered as a sacred commodity, and although there are obvious cultural differences among the people of Sistan and Baluchestan, the similarity of some beliefs regarding carpets shows the unity of the primitive roots of carpet weaving among the two main groups of inhabitants in this region.