Quarterly Scientific-Research Goljaam

Village weavings, particularly flatwoven Gelims, are the products of personal lastes, gifts, and individual creativity. In the meantime, the genuineness of their designs and colors is rooted in a collective genius enriched over the centuries. This collective genius seems to be well-preserved in the flatweav of East Mazandaran villagers, whose design repertoire is not confined to sheer imitation of nature, but is rich in respect of motifs of their own. That is why their weavings stand as documents of their ideas and their way of life, besides being useful and easy to use and carry products.

Conservation and preservation of carpet design cartoons requires a scientific con servation plan appropriate for each case study. The research into the carpet designs of Kerman and Isfahan regions was carried out in 2003 in order to gain access to a comprehensive and exact method for their conservation. In this research, besides the differences in the techniques of producing carpet designs in these regions - based on microscopic observations - the kind of paper fibers used in Kerman was realized as a pine wood byproduct, while the Isfahan region cartoon paper was from ashwhite and pine trees. The kind of dyes that have been used in colouring of carpet designs in Kerman and Isfahan was determined on the basis of the elemental analysis of SEM and FTIR spectrum. Subsequently, the organic origin of the following dyes was established: black, dark- blue, blue, red and the black ink of the checkered paper (manual and printed). The other dyes were mineral. The compound white colour in Kerman carpet designs was white lead and the compound white of Isfahan (except light blue) was zinc oxide.

The cotton hand-woven products of Iran and India are in the category of flat and without knot wovens; Both are suitable for warm climate and some of them have same colour, pattern and composition. These cotton wovens reveal the cultural, psychical and aesthetics distinective characteristic and even climate conditions of weavers. In this study using the library and field research the hypothesis that (colour, pathern and composition in some of cotton woven of Iran and India are the same) has been tasted. In this research Iranian cotton woven "Zillo" and Indian one "DHURRIE" have been introduced. Initially we have shown both of woven, Then we have studied their similarities and differences, and finally we have shown difference between old and new ones because in recent years due to acceptance of other culture, these wovens have changed. Changes in these wovens through function traditional methods on the countinous annual were very little and straw and therefore in this study have not in mind confined time. In this article we only have studied ones that have two or three colour.