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Woven Gardens
- 1976 ----- color ----- 51 min ----- 16mm
- (Tribal Eye series, Part 7) Qashqa'i rugs are a perfect mirror of the nomadic life of this Iranian people. Wool is gathered from sheep, goats and camels. Dyes are made from the juices of plants. The jogging of the pack animals, bearing the looms with unfinished rugs, give the weave its beautiful irregularity. But with Qashqa'i rugs, beauty is second to function. They offer protection from the frozen ground and provide a shield against the bitter winds. When a girl marries a man from another group, she weaves the patterns her husband expects to see on his rugs, but she also integrates the images from her own tradition, thus creating a new family design.
- Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, Art: History, Middle Eastern Studies)
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