نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
Prayer rug is one of the hand – woven which has been designed and woven in small size for the
Moslems from the dawn of Islam and they used it in their rituals.
But it is not obvious, when these carpets got ornated with altar (Mihrab) design or vault design
on them. And it is possible that the vault design has been used in some hand - woven works
before Islam. Many remainders have been left from the patriarch (Ilkani) dynasty with altar on
them. Also, during that era some elegant and beautiful altars out of gypsum have been created
throughout Iran which the most famous is Aljayto Altar in Isfahan but there is not enough
ducuments about altar pattern rugs of that period and our most informations about them are from
travel accounts which in them there are a few pointed to such hand-wowen . In paintings created
during Tymurian Dynasty, the Altar design can be seen on some hand – woven works depided
these paintings. There are more documentary remainders left from Safavid Dynasty era and two
samples of these carpets can be seen at Astan Qods Razavi Museum. Imam Rezas Holy Shrine
has been a suitable place for creating or donating Artistic works from far past time, because of its
value esteem among the Shiite. Among them, it can be referred to elegant carpets, some of which
pertain to the Safavid era hitherto.
The major part of these hand – woven works have Altar (Mihrab) design (or vault design) on
them. In this research, these works have been reviewed and described according to their place of
weave.
کلیدواژهها English
