90% of hand-woven carpet weavers in the country are untidy
Currently, 90% of hand-woven carpet weavers in the country are unorganized, and this has led to the lack of suitable facilities for this group.
Faizullah Arabsorkhi, Deputy Minister of Commerce and Head of the Carpet Center of Iran,
said at the conference of heads, deputies of the organization and business managers of provinces and cities across the country
that it is difficult to obtain information from this group and said: The percentage of weavers in the country is chaotic.
Arabsorkhi mentioned the 2005 budget according to priorities such as advertising, export subsidies,
granting bank facilities and paying the difference from the location of the obligatory facilities,
training program, research and holding foreign exhibitions and said: To achieve the desired.
He pointed to a proposal to strengthen the carpet and said:
These proposals have been given and we are waiting for the approval of the carpet department.
The head of Iran Carpet Center, noting that working groups have been formed in the field of handmade carpet production, said:
These working groups have been formed to study and follow up on the issue of intellectual property in the design of raw materials and dyeing carpets.
Types of Iranian handmade carpets: The art of carpet weaving in Iran dates back to more than 2500 years ago.
Initially, Persian rugs were woven as a necessary tool to cover the ground for nomadic tribes to protect them from the cold and humidity.
The first documentary evidence of the existence of carpets is taken from Chinese texts related to the Sassanid dynasty (224-641 AD).
In 628 AD, Emperor Heraclius acquired various carpets from the conquest of Ctesiphon, the Sassanid capital.
The Arabs also conquered Ctesiphon in 637 AD, and it is said that among their spoils, there were many carpets, one of which was the famous garden carpets, Baharestan.
This carpet is known as the most valuable carpet of history, which was woven during the reign of Khosrow I (531-579 AD) with dimensions of 4 by 1 meter and several tons of weight.
It is said that the king walks on the carpet in winter to remember the beauty of spring.
However, when the Arabs invaded, they tore this magnificent carpet to pieces and sold each piece separately.
In the last 25 years of the nineteenth century, during the Qajar dynasty, trade and handicrafts regained their importance.
With the help of Tabriz merchants, the export of carpets to Europe through Istanbul flourished again.
In the late nineteenth century, some European and American companies even started businesses in Iran, arranging handicraft production for Western markets.
Through this development, new designs with Western tastes were also produced.
