Sunday 8 November 2020

Enigmatic tale of Iranian Carpet

The Iranian carpet is not just a piece of woven cloth, but it is the pride of Persia which is a glistening piece of hues that has gathered a glimpse of the culture and history of the land we know it as a carpetsmanufacturer and supplier. In the year nineteen forty-nine, the excavation of Pazyryk Valley in Siberia revealed the splendid history after the carpet was that was woven two thousand five hundred years ago was found to be Persian. This carpet is kept in Hermitage Museum located in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The fact about the account of the ancient Persian carpet is that this carpet belongs to the palace of Khosrow 1, who was a Sasanian King ruled between five hundred and thirty-one AD to five hundred and seventy-nine AD.

Chronicles

Al Tabari an Iranian Historian who lived between eight hundred and thirty-eight, to nine hundred and twenty-three AD, wrote about an episode of the carpet seized in the 7th century by Arabs and was distributed amongst the soldiers, this is the only floral carpet accounted in history.

The Ardabil Shrine of the Safavid dynasty has also great significance in Iran’s exceptional artwork of carpets, like the execution of the court is portrayed in an unmatched way.

Testimony

William Morris is the famous name for art and craft movement that took place in the nineteenth century. This movement’s philosophy is to learn from the art chronicles, culture, and Mother Nature. 

Handmade best quality carpet companies in Dubai are proud to be a part of the art and culture of Persia as William Morris once addressed Iran as Mecca for art lovers and pattern designers.

William Morris set up a Loom at his house in Hammersmith and produced the Persian carpet there, he used those aesthetic pieces of artwork for not just decoration but also its use. His produced carpets were used as an educational tool and he himself used to decorate his homes in London. He was so enchanted by the beauty of Persian carpets that he liked the carpets hung against the wall rather than somebody walked on it, because he feared that the carpet my not wore out.

The technique

There are two types of knots are used to weave the carpet called asymmetric knot and asymmetric knot of Persian technique, inspired by William Morris people are beautifying their houses with the help of Persian carpets until this day.

The hand-knotted carpets were produced by William Morris; he used the colors in a distinct way with a unique pattern.   

Interesting facts on Art, Culture, and Education

In nineteenth-century there was an educational practice that pupils were visiting the museums to learn through the collection exhibited, Persian carpets were believed to be interpreting nature on a flat piece of textile. So in UAE if somebody looks for carpet kilim Dubai, he should visit our showroom.  

The Persian carpets gained prominence not only for aesthetic significance but also have a great impact on human minds, the Austrian neurologist and father of psychoanalysis named Freud had proposed this theory.