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 experts consider nobility of a Qashqai rug in properties like use of suitable wool fiber, herbaceous dyeing, mental designing and bald painting. These principles were used in a variety of samples of Qashai tribe’s hand-woven carpets. On the other hand, production system in that period was based on the use of existing sources and facilities and motivated by providing financial suppo...

Patterns in Iranian art should be called message painting and expression painting, which sometimes manifests itself directly and sometimes in symbolic language. One of the places of expression and emergence of symbols in Iran is the "carpet". In addition to the traditional and local aspects, these patterns and expressions can express the creative mind influenced by the environment around the ca...

One of the most important and the most ordinary designs ever-decorating the face of the carpets woven in the centers concerned with weaving Iranian Carpet is “Botteh”. Bottheh has been developed in a wide variety of forms with a slight change in its original design. Unlike many complicated Islimi and Khotaiee designs, it is a simple minimal iterative basic pattern which covers the whole surface...

Persian carpet is a manifestation of all of our national arts. There are thousands of people working in this trade. These carpets are produced by efforts of so many workers and artists. Obviously, it is necessary to gain a good knowledge of precious carpets these days because due to good foreign market for them, unfortunately, these weavings with their exceptional designs have been exported abr...

The pattern and the colour used in Sistan carpets is influenced by the climatic, cultural, historical, and image-weaving conditions of the region. In view of their conception, beliefs, culture and the historical antiquity of the region, the artists and weavers of such images choose peculiar patterns and colours bearing their overt and covert understanding that are depicted in their weaving work...