Saturday, March 14, 2009

You said you loved Persian Rugs?



3500 square meters (~38000 sqr ft) of Persian rugs and kilims covered the plains of Shahdad in Iran's Kerman province as part of filming a documentary about the the province of Kerman in Iran. The film covers various aspects of Kerman including history, nature and art.

6 comments:

Dave said...

I do love Rugs, and this images are awesome. So interesting :-)

jmsjoin said...

Wow, look at those pictures, look at the stark beauty of the environment and surroundings that is something then look at the beautiful intricate rugs coming from that area, Amazing!

Mark Prime (tpm/Confession Zero) said...

Wow! I want to see this film.

Thank you.

Gail said...

The rugs and landscape are SO amazing, beautiful and interesting.

Thanks for this.

Love Gail
peace.....

Commander Zaius said...

Great pictures, would love to see and learn more.

Anonymous said...

The rugs motifs are varied. The medalion rugs indicate a vision of the creation - a center indicated by "+" which symbolizez the estoeric "Center" which is God. From that center the patterns exapnd with more and more complexity - indicating the entire Manifestation - the Universe emanating from the "Center".

The vegetation motif indicates a garden - A Persian (Muslim) garden which creates a protected space against the outside full of beauty and order. This (Muslim/Persian) Garden - Pardis - Paradiso - is the vision of Paradise on Earth.

The motif of hunt is - to my knowledge - devoid of religious meaning - it is a celeberation of hunting and other manly activities.

There is more to rugs - farsh - in that they also symbolize sanctified area - just like the Prophet made the Earth sanctified by his presence.

Much more...

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