Introduction: Unsuitable and nonstandard tools, insufficient lighting and the lack of adequate rest in carpet weavers leads to an increased prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in this group of workers that needs to be reduced through the better supervision of carpet weaving workshops. Materials and Methods: The present descriptive cross-sectional analysis was conducted in rural carp...

Carpet design and decoration are the fundamental elements for producing carpet and they are important factors determining material and artistic values of a carpet. The access and use of innovative and demand driven designs are the crucial issues that carpet weavers face with, affecting their production, productivity and income. The purpose of this paper is to explore the supply sources and meth...

The main aim of this qualitative study is to recognize the main challenges of Iranian rural hand-made carpet and to explore solutions for policy-making from experts and key informants’ viewpoint. This qualitative study carried out by Grounded theory. The study sample included faculty members, experts of related administrations and institutions, and actors of rural hand-made carpet selected by p...

Carpet weaving is a high risk occupation for developing MSDs, as awkward working postures, repetitive movements, contact stress and long working time are common. The objectives of the present study, which was carried out at the Iranian hand-woven carpet industry, were determination of MSDs symptoms prevalence, workstation and working posture assessment, identification of major factors associate...

Carpet weaving constituted the most important industry of Kerman province in the end of Qajars period. This industry attracted a large number of manpower and allotted itself the highest digit of export. There were many factories in flourishing carpet weaving of Kerman. The most effective factor in the prosperous of the industry was outer investing and foreign demand. In this investigation, the ...

The main objective of this study is evaluation of the production systems in hand-weaving household. Therefore, we use multiple criteria decision making (Taxonomy, Delphi) whit respect to economic criteria, social criteria, management criteria and qualitative criteria. The results indicate that, based on the performance of production system, employer system in large scale firms was found to be t...