Nain (carpet)
The Nain carpet ( Persian قالی نائین) is a world-famous carpet from the oasis town of the same name Nain (Na'in) in the Isfahan province in central Iran .
This carpet is a particularly finely knotted type with a predominantly light overall impression ( color ). The main colors mostly contrast in the ivory / sand-cream color with light to dark blue tones. In real Nain carpets, light red is also used in very rare cases. In terms of character, the Nain carpet is thus close to the Isfahan carpet . It resembles the Isfahan in the pattern (Shah Abbasi and Eslimi pattern), in the knot density as in the pile height.
A real nain has a very high density of knots. The average knot density is 460,000 Persian knots per square meter. The highest quality specimens have over a million wool knots per square meter and are tied on silk or cotton warp. The structure is very stable. The base fabric is thin and cotton. The pile is only moderately high, shiny due to silk inclusions , smooth and very dense. Some specimens are made entirely of silk.
The Nain carpets have delicate tendril compositions with large sweeping boteh motifs (the most famous carpet motif in which the shape of an almond - a stylized eye motif - is modeled). Delicate medallions with vase structures are often chosen as patterns, as well as imaginative tendril-blossom-flower drawings without a medallion.
The Nain carpets are one of the smaller carpets with an elongated format. There are also Nain bridges . Today's Khorassan-Nain-s are mostly made in the region around Mashhad and Kashmar . Their quality is oriented towards the average customer.
literature
- SAMilhofer, Orient-Teppiche, Fackelträger-Verlag 1966 - Schmidt-Küster GmbH, without ISBN
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Tabriz-Isfahan Carpet Centers, Nain. (No longer available online.) Darafarin.de, archived from the original on April 9, 2010 ; Retrieved October 30, 2010 ( picture of a Nain ). 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.
- ↑ Boteh or Mir-i-Bota motif
