#qashqai

[smsomah]

The Qashqai, Iran: Amala tribe, on the way to winter quarters south of Qir, Autumn 1987. From the book The nomadic peoples of Iran by Richard Tapper. The photo was taken by Nasrollah Kasraian.

[folkfashion]

Qashqai woman, Sanaz Namdari, Iran

[dardasht]

Persian Carpet/ Qashqai pattern/ Iran

Material: Silk 100%, size:1.5M

[pollyj]

Ghashghai women perform the traditional 'napkin dance' during a wedding in Firozabad, Fars, Iran, on May 7, 2009.

Hossein Fatemi

[koniknits]

Iranian pareh spindle.

[turkicculture]

Qashqai woman with traditional clothes

[sewercentipede]

Left: Qashqai “Rosette Rug”, 4’ 4” x 6’, 3rd quarter, 19th century.

Right: Qashqai girl with newborn lamb.

Left: Qashqai Kashkuli, 5’ x 6’ 6”, circa 1850.

Right: Qashqai woman in traditional dress, consisting of a tunic with long sleeves and side slits open to the waist that allows numerous frilly petticoats to billow.

Left: Qashqai woman deftly spinning lanolin-oily wool in preparation for her next carpet.

Right: Qashqai carpet, 5’ 6” x 10’, 3rd quarter, 19th century.

Left: At almost two centuries old this Khan’s carpet offers a rare window into the earlier aesthetic sensibility of the Qashqai tribe.

Right: Qashqai man drinking tea. The ceramic tea pots and fragile cups are stored in velvet-lined compartment boxes constructed so that each piece can travel safely during migration.

Left: Qashqai “Cane Rug” – 5’ 3” x 9’ 4″, 3rd quarter, 19th century.

Right: Qashqai weaver sitting on a horizontal loom with months of her weaving behind her.

via Jan David Winitz

[nazarjoon]

rugs no 3-6

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