Investigation of Mirror works on the Qajarid houses of the historical context in Yazd

Mirror work is one of the elegant arts used extensively to usually decorate the interior of a building. Although this art was used at least since the Safavid period, it has become more common in the Qajar Era and reached its climax in this period including in constructing some halls like Mirror hall of Golestan Palace and especially in constructing religious and holy monuments. It results the reflections of light through these pieces of mirrors, which produce a dazzling display of sparkling light. This kind of deliberate decorations, leads to a bright and highly shining atmosphere created upon consecutive reflections of light in numerous mirror pieces. As the historical texts testify, this fine and delicate art is surely an invention of Iranian architects. The mirror reflects the sky, water and every color and is a symbol of light and life. The decorations developed during the Qajar period so that the presence of this art can be seen in different buildings particularly in the residential houses. Yazd is one of the rare Islamic cities of Iran, in which that the historical tissue is preserved very well . The historical tissue of the city presently consists of both ordinary and aristocratic houses. The mostly owners of these aristocratic houses were merchants in Qajar era that some of them had mirror work decoration in the interior parts. According to the results the use of stucco on mirror and mirro work on stucco together is a common technique based on 58% in these hoses. Also the Geometric and plants motifs based on 90% and 75%, are the most ones and the Kase Boshghabi motif is the less one that has been used in the houses of Yazd. Mirror rooms are placed 91/7% in the winter part of the houses(north and west) that including different uses like: the reflection and increasing the light in the cold seasons that the sky was some how darker.