The first western authors of Oriental Carpets and absence of Iranian researchers

Document Type : Scientific

10.22103/jis.2025.23291.2602

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At the end of the 18th century, people from European countries (led by Germany-Berlin and Munich; Austria-Vienna) and America became familiar with oriental-Iranian carpets, and according to the reasons that economic affairs were at the top, research and writing about carpets flourished. Works and writing that are still valid. The purpose of this article is to familiarize with some researchers and their works in order to benefit from today's research and analyze the positive and negative points of their works and opinions. The opinions of these writers toward the classification of carpets were also important and add to the article. The reasons for the absence of Iranian researchers at this time will also be briefly answered at the end. In this connection, it should be noted that because carpet weaving is placed in the category of traditional arts, it benefits from breast-to-breast transmission. The commitment of teachers to this way of teaching and preserving that method is gradually a factor in pushing out the writing of techniques, recording the identity and characteristics of artistic productions and also writing about the artists or in other words, doing research in carpet weaving.
The method of writing the topic is library studies with historical approach in descriptive way. The findings show how the research on oriental carpets opens up new topics in this field and causes them to spread. Discussions related to holding exhibitions of oriental carpets or paying attention to rural-nomadic carpets are some of the results

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