All about tabas carpets in Iran
Tabas carpet is one of the light urban carpets that is woven in Tabas region located in Khorasan province in northeastern Iran. In this carpet, asymmetrical knots with cotton threads and wool and silk lint have been used. Lacquer and bergamot are common and white designs, earthy, blue, cream, azure, brown, jade, turquoise, jujube and lacquer are the common colors of Tabas carpet.
Carpet weaving in Tabas can be examined from 1300 AD onwards, but before this year, various carpets and under-sized carpets, including a kind of hand-woven kilim, which is now woven in the villages of this city to some extent by housewives, or carpets such as ‘Arab carpet’, which was mostly woven by Arab tribes in southern Khorasan and woven from the Persian Gulf, has been common.
About 90 years ago, a person named Mr. Majd Tabasi brought a kind of coarse and fine-grained carpet, which was mainly lacquered with a number of about 22 and was woven in the cities of Khorasan province, including: Sabzevar, Neishabour and Mashhad. 1350 This type of carpet was woven in the Tabas region, and its woven samples are now used in the homes of the people of Tabas.
Around 1350, the border and neighborhood of Tabas city with Nain from Isfahan province, especially the neighborhood of Khor Biabank, caused the Nain carpet to enter this area and in a short distance it covered all 300 villages and the city of Tabas and quickly removed the old carpet from the outside.
The two main advantages of the new Al-Ward Naeini carpet over Tabas carpet are:
A) – The old carpet of Tabas had domestic consumption, but the new carpet was exported, so naturally the price of this carpet was more expensive.
B) – The old carpet of Tabas was a single weave, but the new Naini carpet was a pair of weaves, and these two important things have made it famous in domestic and foreign markets and among the merchants and traders of ‘Tabas carpet’.
The designs woven in Tabas are: elastic bergamot, joshqan, altar, flower bouquet, dome, simple floor, Qabi frame, tree, sprinkler and brick.
In 2002, the first centralized carpet weaving complex was established by Abar Naghsh Company in Tabas, which produced large cloth carpets for Arab countries.
Once upon a time, there were more than 15,000 carpenters in the area, and about 30,000 of Tabas’s 60,000-strong population used to live on carpets, but now a small number of them remain in the throes of some negligence.
Carpet weaving was the best job for women in the area. Especially since the nature of carpet weaving is such that it is under the roof and the sunlight and the extreme heat of Tabas did not have a negative effect on them.
