Afshar (carpet)
The Afshar ( Persian افشار) is a type of carpet that goes back to the Turkic tribe of the Afshar ( Oghusen ) in the extreme east of Iran in the border area with Afghanistan and especially today - due to forced resettlement - in the southern Persian region between Shiraz and Kerman .
The cattle-breeding clans of the now sedentary but once nomadic Afshari tie mainly bridges (small to medium-sized, mostly very valuable carpets) and small, thick carpets with a woolen backing.
The patterns are regularly designed geometrically and generously. The background is often red, the motifs are dark and colorful, and arranged in groups. Afshari products have a high pile and are made of shiny wool. Most of them are almost square in shape. The narrow sides of old specimens often show splendid finishes, partly knotted or knitted, which end in loose warp thread fringes . The long sides (Shirazeh) are often multicolored wrapped with wool. The knot density is around 160,000 Turkish knots per m² .
The Afshar clans have a reputation for having the richest sample catalog in the entire Orient. Their products from early periods still bear clearly rudimentary samples of the Turkish peoples of Asia, such as the Seljuks and the north-west Persian clans of Azerbaijan .
A distinction is made between: Afshari-Niris , Afshari-Saidabad and Afshari-Shiraz carpets.
Afshar carpets are also sold under the name Sirdjan carpets.
literature
- SA Milhofer: Oriental carpets. Fackelträger-Verlag, Hanover 1974, ISBN 3-7716-1718-9 .
- Karl Schlamminger, Peter Lamborn Wilson : Weaver of Tales. Persian Picture Rugs / Persian tapestries. Linked myths. Callwey, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7667-0532-6 , pp. 27-29, 102 f., 120 f. and 168 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alles zum Teppich.de Afschar
- ↑ A gem of nomadic knotting ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 282 kB)
