Get to know the best Iranian carpets!
Despite all this fame and antiquity, Iranian carpets are still unknown; Not only for the buyer, but also for us as we should and perhaps do not know it. Few people can guess the location of the texture by looking at the carpet and tell the characteristics of its texture. While when a carpet is finished, its identity card is issued with itself and in itself. Not knowing the characteristics of the carpet causes the buyer to buy the carpet only because of its beauty or design, and then regret that, for example, the work of a certain place does not last; While not having enough information about the nature and achievements of a place has led to the wrong choice and in fact this has led to the destruction of the carpet. Now we decide to examine the characteristics of carpets in several important cities of our country. Be a few lines with us; Maybe you also like being able to feel the weaver’s city according to the carpet map.
Nain Carpet
Nain carpet with a quality that is famous in world markets is not a carpet for which the use of thick Iranian wool is considered a privilege. The wool used in this carpet is delicate and a high percentage of it is wool called fluff.
Common designs in Nain carpets
The most important and main design used in Nain carpet is elastic and bergamot, which has a very high variety.
Features of Nain carpet
One of the outstanding features of Nain carpet is its light and matte colored background, which, along with its elegance and precision in texture, gives an amazing comfort to dense patterns and full of traditional twists. Also, unlike many other regions of the country, Nain carpet does not follow certain dimensions and is produced in a wide variety of sizes.
How to recognize Nain carpet?
Carpets used for families have a strong structure and long lint to make them more durable under people’s feet, and because Nain carpets have short lint and most of the light colors used in them, it is less used by families and is mostly used to decorate They are working.
Carpet Qom
Qom carpets were first introduced to the market using not so fine wool, but over time, Qom carpet weavers developed the evolution of carpet weaving and with special skill and ability to weave all-silk carpets with a very high number. The exquisite rugs that entered the market in this way and with these delicate silk threads became known as silk flowers.
Common designs of Qom carpets
Qom carpet designs, like the colors used, have a certain variety and range. The designs of the old carpets of Qom consisted of designs known as Shah Abbasi elastic and bergamot – prohibitions – altar and hunting ground. This design, which was prepared by adapting the design of Kashan and Isfahan carpets, quickly changed with the creativity of Qom designers and a new style appeared in the Iranian carpet weaving industry. This style became known as Qom carpet style with features such as masterful design and coordination of original and unique patterns and colors.
Features of Qom carpet
The determining factor for identifying Qom carpets is the technique of work; Because the working method in these carpets is quite regular and complete. If we look closely at new high quality carpets (for example, carpets from Kashan, Tehran, Kerman, etc.), we will see a little irregularity on their backs, especially in the thickness of fabrics, threads or knots, which of course can be overlooked. This disorder does not exist at all in the carpets of Qom and their order is such that sometimes it makes one doubt to the point that he thinks that this carpet was not woven by machine. In fact, it can be said that Qom carpets are famous for their great delicacy.
Qom carpets are very durable and have more decorative aspects and are considered as the best products of Iranian carpets.
How to know Qom carpet?
Qom carpets are recognizable by the bright colors of its background – ivory white, cream and yellow – which is generally free of fringes and wrinkles; Although their role in the topics they present has some instabilities and variability, in most cases it represents two types of role; One small stylized cypress; That is, the plant, which is sometimes mistakenly called the role of Kashmir, and the other, the role of the Sultan, which is a vase full of flowers on which small and beautiful birds fly.
Kashan carpet
Common designs of Kashan carpets
Kashan carpet is influenced by the rotating design and elasticity of Isfahan bergamot, but it does not have the elegance and precision of Isfahan carpet and has a more limited color scheme.
Features of Kashan carpet
One of the features of Kashan carpets can be said that the cut of these carpets, with the exception of side rugs, is almost the size of a rug and larger, while in the eastern countryside of Kashan, carpets of less than one square meter are also woven.
How to know Kashan carpet?
Kashan carpet is recognizable both through the very delicate texture that reveals the details of all the patterns and through its excellent merino wool that gives the surface of the carpet a velvety state. Undoubtedly, the use of Australian wool was done by someone who laid the foundation for the production of modern carpets in Kashan and was the importer of this wool and the founder of the city’s weaving.
Turkmen carpet
Turkmen carpets have more threads than wool, and they use their own fleece to weave their carpets. Turkmen carpets are woven by women with a horizontal face and inside nomadic tents, which results in the weaving of smaller pieces among them. In addition to carpets, other types of carpets and rugs, which are mainly used for special purposes, are also produced in Turkmen areas, such as khorjin, Almaliq, and Ajaghbashi.
Features of Turkmen carpets
Most Turkmen carpets are coarse woven. The most important technical feature of them is their monofilament (thin monofilament) which is one of the most obvious examples of this method along with Baluch rugs as far as it can be said that Turkmen carpets are woven.
Common designs of Turkmen carpets
The original Turkmen maps are all duplicates; That is, they are formed by the repetition of one or more themes.
Common designs in Turkmen carpets are flowers and geometric designs.
How to know Turkmen carpet?
In addition to the extensive use of floral designs, other methods of identifying Turkmen carpets include the use of winding circles in a very beautiful geometric shape, which are often found on Turkmen carpets.
Apart from handicrafts, these geometric patterns can be seen in ornaments, prayer frames, collars and even tombstones and in the decoration of Turkmen cattle. It should be said that the Turkmen are from Naqsh, Naqshband and are fascinated by geometric designs.
Finally, it should be added that all the arts of the Turkmen people are directly related to the surrounding nature.
Kerman Carpet
The lack of water and the mountainous and sandy areas of this region have caused most of the residents of this region to turn to the art and industry of carpet weaving instead of farming. This region of Iran has long been considered one of the most important centers of carpet weaving in our country and the history of carpet weaving in Kerman dates back to centuries before the Safavid era.
Common designs of Kerman carpets
Kermani designers use and make designs of flowers, leaves and trees, and many experts believe that the climatic conditions and desert environment of Kerman have caused the Kermani designer to compensate for their lack by depicting flowers and plants in his mind.
Features of Kerman carpet
In terms of color, Kerman carpet is one of the most diverse and happy carpets in Iran.
Kerman carpets are famous for their dyeing; Because it is the only carpet weaving center in Iran where almost all foreign dyes are banned. The colors used in these carpets are very diverse. In fact, it can be said that most of these dyes, which until recently were used in dyeing workshops for carpet weaving and carpet weaving, were a series of natural dyes, but in the years after World War II, some ink dyes found their way into their dyeing workshops.
Tehran Carpet
Today, carpets are produced in Tehran from different regions of Iran. Residents of towns around Tehran, especially Islamshahr, are engaged in the production of various types of carpets, especially the delicate carpets of Tabriz, Qom and Nain. Also, workshops centrally in several places in Tehran produce carpets of different regions, as well as carpets with designs, images and carpets, and different training centers are engaged in training the design and texture of carpets according to their interests and tastes.
The necessary point to mention about today’s products of Tehran carpets is that some of the designs used in the carpets of this city can be considered to belong to all parts of Iran and others are not similar to any of the design styles and patterns of Iranian carpets.
Common designs of Tehran carpets
As mentioned earlier, Tehran carpet weaving is completely affected by involuntary migration from different parts of the country to this city; Due to the migration and settlement of a number of city carpet weavers in this city, all kinds of textures and designs can be seen among the carpets of Tehran.
With all this, Tehran carpets are mainly woven in a bright background and using old designs or new shapes in elastic and bergamot designs, animal tree, simple tree, geometric Khatam Shiraz, armband and Herati with samovar fringe, etc. Ivy lattice designs in successive repetitions are also common in Tehran. Other common designs include pictorial carpets. The design of Qom, Tabriz, Nain, Kashan and Isfahan regions is also woven in Tehran, but the style of Nain and Kashan is more.
Characteristics of Tehran carpet
In Tehran carpets, light color is mostly used for the background, but the special colors of these carpets are: dark pearl for the background and very soft blue for the elastic. Other colors such as black (especially on the perimeter of the maps), dark blue, floral as well as free or purple, ivory, pea green, old green, and dark red and mustard yellow are also used, and most colors are vegetable.