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Mr Homayun Haj Mohammad Hosseini, Dr Habibullah Ayatollahi,
Volume 1, Issue 1 (3-2006)
Abstract
Iranian rural carpets are an important resource for studying the rural art and culture of Iran. They are also the most important area for staging the talents of, especially, rural girls and women. The common aspects of visual elements bespeak the prevailing spirit in these works under the influence of interaction with nature and lessons learned thereby. Also the availability of materials in the rural environment has the greatest influence on the physical aspects of design and texture. Rural-urban interaction and that with the nomadic population, and adapting the imported patterns to rural life is an outstanding feature of rural carpets. Adaptability of rural carpets to traditional rural applications and architecture is truly remarkable. The aesthetics of these works reveals their underlying principles, and the characteristics of their creators, and helps understand their worldview and attitude to their environment. Perhaps, that will present us with the gift of a new understanding of existence. The last point is that rural carpets are distinguishable from the urban and nomadic varieties.
Dr Habibolah Ayatollahi, Dr Amir Hosein Chitsazian, Mr Jamal-Aldin Toomajnia,
Volume 3, Issue 6 (9-2007)
Abstract
Each civilization make own culture and cultural productions that have sign of identification of that culture. Islamic civilization and its genuine culture is settled this identity in obey of god’s commands and Moslems are innovated some beautiful productions that symbol of this delivery. Prayer rug is one of these productions. It is necessary to Moslems to pray five times in a day. Among Turkmen people, it is necessary to exist one ore some prayer rug in bride’s trousseau. This inquiry is tried to introduce kinds of prayer rugs and their patterns and symbols.
Dr Mohsen Niazi, Dr Amir-Hussein Chitsazian,
Volume 3, Issue 6 (9-2007)
Abstract
Carpet weaving is an indispensable part of artistic, economic, social, and cultural heritage of Iranian civilization. This industry has been long associated with the name of Kashan. In this study the role of attitude change in job culture and tendency to work outside home and do office work in carpet weaving industry in Kashan is investigated. A sample of 926 families participated in the study. Two instruments were used for data collection; a questionnaire and an interview. A significant correlation was observed between change in attitude towards working outside and several variables of carpet weaving (r=.289/ Sig. .01).
Zahra Hosseinabadi, Vahideh Saebi,
Volume 16, Issue 37 (9-2020)
Abstract
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.
Elahe Sheikhi, Iman Zakariaee Kermani, Farhad Babajamali,
Volume 16, Issue 38 (2-2021)
Abstract
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.
