History of Bakhtiari handmade carpets
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province is located in southeastern Iran. The residents of the province are divided into two groups: the residents of the alley and the residents. The total population of the province can be divided into three groups:
Villagers who are either nomads or settlers and are engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry and carpet weaving.
Urban dwellers who are nomads of the former villagers and are engaged in administrative and service jobs.
Nomads who have a moving life and move twice a year (so-called summer and winter).
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province is located in a mountainous and cold region and due to its special geographical conditions, it has favorable conditions for the production of handmade carpets. For this reason, carpet production is more important in this province and carpet is the main handicraft of this province. This industry is first settled in the villages and then among the nomads, and finally in the cities. Carpets are one of the luxury items of nomadic life that makes them proud and proud. The most important carpet weaving areas of the province are: Chaleshtar, Saman, Ashkaftak, Pirblout, Arjang, Vardanjan, Farrokhshahr, Borujen, Baldaji, Hirgan, Babahidar, Ardal and its subordinate areas, Shalmzar and the Olad tribe carpet group.
The carpets of this province are divided into two categories according to the garden area and their weavers:
Bakhtiari carpets whose weavers are Bakhtiari nomads or residents whose origin is Bakhtiari tribes.
Qashqai carpets whose weavers are Qashqai Turkic tribes.
Structure: A number of carpet weaving machines are provided to weavers by Jihad Sazandegi Carpet Co. and Iran Handicrafts Organization. But the rest of the logs are completely horizontal, and carpets with numbers 17 to 20 (currently with number 40) are produced on them. They have a Turkish and two-legged group, but in Shahrekord region of the center of the province, products with superior quality are produced from a Persian weave and knot. Bakhtiari carpets have cotton threads and woolen lint. Of course, the old Bakhtiari weaves had very good wool weaving. In a number of Bakhtiari carpets, their weaving is of little value because of the spinning wool obtained from the garden. The wool is mostly dry, and the strands are gray wool, which darkens as soon as it is dyed.
Common designs
The designs and maps used in Bakhtiari carpets, especially in the old days, are completely subjective and no maps have been used in their texture. Common designs can be classified as follows:
Qashqai carpets
Bergamot (with a pond)
Sugarloo (with two pools)
Colorful layout
Bakhtiari carpets
Brick (animal bricks and flower and plant bricks)
Bergamot (elastic and bergamot)
Pine cedar
Samovar carpet (ring)
Enamel flower (aristocratic flower)
Pot
Wine (blanket flower, jar pot)
Pots and trees