Kheshti design on Iranian carpet

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The kheshti design is a type of tree design and has its own characteristics. The patterns used in the carpets are generally derived from ethnic and local customs and traditions, and in fact represent the place and the city. Accordingly, archaeologists, with the works they have obtained over the years and examining its features, identify the traditions that have been influenced by carpets and provide them to those who are interested.

Features of carpet design (kheshti)
1- Kheshti design is mainly woven in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province and in the local language it is also called kashti or brick design.
2- The role of the theme in the frame design includes large flowers and sunflowers and they know it based on this feature.
3- Frames are woven in the design of the frame or kheshti on a regular basis.
4- In the kheshti design, there is another design, which is the pattern of the cedar. The survey design in this type of carpet is a symbol and a symbol of the evergreen date and greenery of the tree of life and is taken from the cedars available in Persepolis paintings.
5- The design of the woven cedars in the frame design is woven in dark green and light green and yellow colors by imitating the paintings of Persepolis.
6- When these three colors are placed together, they actually represent one of the customs and symbols of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari weaves.
7- Along with the main motifs, which are French flowers and sunflowers, patterns of colorful flowers and leaves are woven inside the frame of the frame design.
8- Around the frames woven in the frame design, there are also dragon-shaped branches and Islamic mouths and yellow headbands.
9- The main margin in this design has a dark background and the background is filled with leaf and flower designs between three pairs of narrower sub-margins with branches that are wavy.
10 – The most important types of frame designs are Quranic frame and Bakhtiari frame, elastic and bergamot and boiling.
11. Frames woven in a frame design may be the same or the same shape or may have some differences.
12- The patterns and drawings that are woven inside the frames of the frame design have different types such as: geometric design, flower tree design, chicken and inlay work. Star-shaped designs are woven around the frames.
13- There is another frame or kheshti design and it is black and white and checkered.