All about Jajim handicrafts idea
Jajim is a handwoven website (usually with rhombus and striped patterns) that is woven using colorful and delicate woolen or cotton threads or a mixture of the two. Jajim is one of the most common handicrafts in Iran and has long been popular among rural and nomadic families.
Jajim is used as an underlay, plus, carpet and bed screw, and is also used when nomadic nomads to pack and move furniture and sometimes as a warm blanket.
In Iran, jajim is mostly placed on chairs and beds next to the room or used as a bedside screw bed and even a duvet cover. Even in some rural families, Jajim is given as a gift to the young man’s eyes and dowry.
Jajim weaving is known as “Jajim Baft” due to its characteristics and distinction from other weaves.
Its raw materials are wool and its texture is similar to kilim, with the difference that Jajim is woven in four boards and after weaving, it is connected and sewn together. Give. Jajim is sometimes a one-way and sometimes two-way weave, and this is due to the extra threads that create the motif.
These strands are sometimes drawn freely between the two motifs on the back of the weave. These colorful hand-woven fabrics are woven by rural women in the provinces of Azerbaijan, Kurdistan and Kermanshah, Iran.
The geographical distribution of the texture of Jajim weaving shows that this woolen hand-woven is specific to cold and mountainous places; Because sheep wool is one of the best fibers to prevent cold penetration into the human body. Its uses, regardless of the role of the carpet, include horse hoofs, bed covers, and upholstery to prevent cold penetration. Of course, the exact time of the start of Jajim’s weaving cannot be considered, but what emerges from the evidence is that this home art has been popular in Iran for about 700 years. Evidence of this claim is a painting from the 14th century that shows a cloth or carpet similar to Jajim in its image.
