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    The document discusses Persian carpet design and the major of carpet design. It notes that Persian carpets each have unique designs that fall into three main groups based on the lines. The designs are also categorized as tribal or urban. Tribal designs are influenced by old Persian patterns and are geometric while urban designs are more elaborate. It then explains that the major of carpet design combines historical carpet art with modern design needs. The major includes learning about carpet history, types, tools, and importantly design. Students take both theoretical and practical design courses to learn traditional and new carpet designs.

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    The document discusses Persian carpet design and the major of carpet design. It notes that Persian carpets each have unique designs that fall into three main groups based on the lines. The designs are also categorized as tribal or urban. Tribal designs are influenced by old Persian patterns and are geometric while urban designs are more elaborate. It then explains that the major of carpet design combines historical carpet art with modern design needs. The major includes learning about carpet history, types, tools, and importantly design. Students take both theoretical and practical design courses to learn traditional and new carpet designs.

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    The document discusses Persian carpet design and the major of carpet design. It notes that Persian carpets each have unique designs that fall into three main groups based on the lines. The designs are also categorized as tribal or urban. Tribal designs are influenced by old Persian patterns and are geometric while urban designs are more elaborate. It then explains that the major of carpet design combines historical carpet art with modern design needs. The major includes learning about carpet history, types, tools, and importantly design. Students take both theoretical and practical design courses to learn traditional and new carpet designs.

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    190 views5 pages

    On Persian Carpet

    Uploaded by

    Mehrdad Soltanzadeh
    The document discusses Persian carpet design and the major of carpet design. It notes that Persian carpets each have unique designs that fall into three main groups based on the lines. The designs are also categorized as tribal or urban. Tribal designs are influenced by old Persian patterns and are geometric while urban designs are more elaborate. It then explains that the major of carpet design combines historical carpet art with modern design needs. The major includes learning about carpet history, types, tools, and importantly design. Students take both theoretical and practical design courses to learn traditional and new carpet designs.

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    On Persian Carpet

    The characteristics and important factor that have made the carpets of this land world famous are their pleasant, varied and unique. Each Persian carpet has a design of it's own, so that thousands of fascinating designs can be seen in a whole range of Persian carpets, each being very beautiful and possessing perfect harmony. All the designs can basically be categorised into three principle group. All the motifs and figures which constituted the design are made from composition, contact, rotation and balance of the line. If the line along their route makes angles, the design will be classified in the curvilinear group. Should the lines of the design in same part of their route make angles and in other make roundish movements, the design belongs to the stylized group. Most Persian carpets are decorated with medallion(Torang) and corners. The medallion is always located in the in the center of the layout and shape may be round, oval, rhomboid or in different sizes which vary according to the taste and custom of the weaver, all Persian designs are categorized in two main group: 1. Tribal designs These designs have been influenced by old and noble Persian patterns that were created by native carpet weavers. In spite of the patterns, which are not ordered and regular, the designer are still attractive. These design are recognized by the name of the production zone such as Maslaghan, Ferdousan may take the name of the chieftain such as Ghashghayi. Most Tribal Designs are geometric an stylish style. 2. Urban design The designs of Urban carpet in comparison to tribal pattern's are more elaborate and precise, therefore to realize them the weaver needs to use the template. Some kind of design: Abbasi, Arabesque (Eslimi), Vase (Goldan), Harati, etc.

    On Carpet Design Major


    Nowadays, for a better use of hand-made carpets, historical art of carpet design is combined with modern art to match today needs for decoration. Not a long time ago, carpet design used to be seen more like a profession than an art but in 1990s due to the wide extent of design diversity for this branch of Iranian art a separate major named Carpet Design started in some Iranian universities. In this major, students learn about the history of carpet, sociology of carpet, different carpet weaving types and tools, geography of carpet, and most importantly design of the carpet. In general, this major includes five minor disciplines: repair, completion, design, coloring, and weaving. The design minor includes theoretical courses such as Persian Carpet Design, Evolution of Design, Aesthetic of Carpet Design, Carpet Marketing, and practical courses such as: General Design, Traditional Design, Ghali and Gelim (two types of Persian carpet) Design, etc.

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