All about coloring on the Iranian Chaleshtar carpet
Coloring in Chaleshtar Carpet, the weavers of this village, despite the spread of chemical raw materials in the country’s dyeing industry, are still trying to obtain the required colors using plant raw materials. The value of products that use chemical dyes is much lower than carpets made with natural dyes. On the other hand, the most important feature of traditional dyeing of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari carpets is that the more the carpet is worn, the more colorful it becomes like Kerman carpet. Chaleshtar owes its fame to the use of quality plant dyes in its carpets. “The colors used in the carpet of this village are: light blue, garlic and light lacquer, cream and white, green and light green, brown and orange.” Dyeing in Chaleshtar carpet.
The color scheme of Ronasi colors in this region is different from other regions of the country, so that in other regions, cream is boiled with different Ronas and teeth. However, in this area, raw materials or cream are soaked in hot or lukewarm water for 72 hours or more, and after a certain period of time, when the cream comes out of the bath or pot, it turns doughy, physical or peachy.
Then, the cream is tied to the flowing waters of springs or canals for the desired time. The cream gradually becomes darker by absorbing the salts and minerals in the water and comes out of the water depending on the needs of the weaver and his favorite shard. . (Depending on the storage time in the water) This color difference, which is due to the different salts in the water in different areas, causes differences in colors, which is a factor in recognizing different carpets in different areas. So one of the most unique ways of coloring in these areas is to identify the carpet of one village from another village by the evaluators and evaluators of the carpet. They are placed in a container full of plant pigments so that the creams are painted with the heat of the sun and then they are heated in cow urine to stabilize the color of the creams. “For brighter colors, new creams are placed in the effluent of previous creams mixed with buttermilk, so this effluent may be used in four stages for coloring.”
The number of colors used in Chaleshtar rugs is between 22 and 28 colors. These colors include: camel color (light brown), straw yellow, crimson blue (light and earthy blue), indigo garlic, keel (bold blue), red [lacquer] (garlic pink and half garlic), body “Pink, earthy, almond and almond-colored.”
