جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « cloth » در نشریات گروه « هنر و معماری »

Geometric shapes and motifs are a combination of the human spiritual mind which sees the existence of beautiful and paints a historical civilization through this vision. The geometric motifs are an expression of the rhythmic and balanced human beings possessions when the human being wants to imagine beyond the present and create a world full of love. The patterns/shapes are the basis of artworks and give a great prominence to it. In this paper, it is struggled to combine and analyze discussions and statements along the fractal geometry approach of Herat embroidery in order to determine the impact and effectiveness. The researcher intends to give a brief information about embroidery for a comprehensive understanding, and then to analyze the embroidery patterns of Herat and study them from the perspective of fractal geometry. Although this traditional art is a part of the tangible culture of Afghanistan, the use of the geometric structure in these embroideries shows the originality of art and culture of ancient Herat. Therefore, the study and analysis of this feminine and primitive art can be a useful step in the direction of the ancient Herat art and culture studies. Embroidery is one of the ancient methods to decorate the surface of fabric or clothing and is one of the traditional arts of Afghanistan, which has a great reputation and ancient history that has special interests in all countries. In Herat embroidery we can see a type of geometric motifs which adorns the male and female clothing in Afghanistan especially in Herat. Undoubtedly, the essence of each of these products shows the skill, taste, initiative and creativity of Afghan women. The majority of these women live in remote villages and hamlets and are engaged in this craft with a special interest in the fractal geometry Unusual geometric shapes that are most important feature of them are self-similarity and repetitive formation. These features can also be seen in the designs of these embroidery in Herat. The main questions raised in this paper are: What is the relationship between the Herat embroidery and the fractal geometry patterns? What are the similarities and differences between fractal shapes and embroidery patterns in Herat? The research in this paper is based on descriptive - analytical - and adaptive methods. The library method, field observations and interviews with embroiders in Herat were used to generate and gather the relevant information. The most important part of this article, which is the embroidered patterns of Herat, was in the form of an interview and to get the basic knowledge that has been taken from local customs and traditions, travel has been made to distant cities. After collecting the data, the results showed that the embroidered patterns of Herat have similarities and differences with the fractal geometry patterns and motifs. However, their similarities are far greater than their differences. In general it can be stated that these patterns by having the features like repeated formation, self-similarity and zooming to infinity are being counted as part of the fractal geometric patterns.

The art and technology of Bronze Age and third Millennium BC in which urban communities grew and intercultural communications increased in West Asia is of special importance in the history of mankind. Cloth-weaving is one of the arts which emerged in such time especially in a number of lands like Anatolia, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran, and provided the ground for transactions and cultural relations. In such era, textile is of both ordinary and ritual usages. Accordingly, this paper aims to study comparatively the warp-weft looms of such regions in this period, and especially Shahr-e Sūkhte (The Burnt City) as the case study. For this purpose, by collecting documentary data from libraries and museums, the paper studies descriptively-analytically the origin, types and methods of cloth weaving (textile) in Shahr-e Sūkhte. This paper is of fundamental researches type in terms of goal and of historical ones with respect to methodology. The present paper seeks to find answers to these questions: what warp-weft looms were commonly used in such regions in third Millennium BC? which weaving looms were used by the residents of Shahr-e Sūkhte?The results of this study show that the use of three kinds of loom including horizontal ground looms, vertical looms and warp-weighted looms were common in the ancient sites of the third Millennium BC. The design of different complicated textiles found in Shahr-e Sūkhte along with round discs used as textile weights as well as the discovery of the samples showing the application of tablet weaving in decorated end warps of fabrics all are the evidence of using warp-weighted looms in Shahr-e Sūkhte.