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IRAN - KURDS
Kurds The Kurds speak a variety of closely related dialects, which in Iran are collectively called Kirmanji. The dialects are divided into northern and southern groups, and it is not uncommon for the Kurds living in adjoining mountain valleys to speak different dialects. There is a small body of Kurdish literature written in a modified Arabic script. Kurdish is more closely related to Persian than is Baluchi and also contains numerous Persian loanwords. In large Kurdish cities, the educated pop... - http://countrystudies.us/iran/40.htm 28/01/2005 - Category: Culture - More from this publisher
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IRAN - AZARBAIJANIS
Azarbaijanis By far the largest Turkic-speaking group are the Azarbaijanis, who account for over 85 percent of all Turkic speakers in Iran. Most of the Azarbaijanis are concentrated in the northwestern corner of the country, where they form the majority population in an area between the Caspian Sea and Lake Urmia and from the Soviet border south to the latitude of Tehran. Their language, Azarbaijani (also called Azeri or Turkish), is structurally similar to the Turkish spoken in Turkey but with... - http://countrystudies.us/iran/42.htm 28/01/2005 - Category: Culture - More from this publisher
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IRAN - QASHQAIS
Qashqais The Qashqais are the second largest Turkic group in Iran. The Qashqais are a confederation of several Turkic-speaking tribes in Fars Province numbering about 250,000 people. They are pastoral nomads who move with their herds of sheep and goats between summer pastures in the higher elevations of the Zagros south of Shiraz and winter pastures at low elevations north of Shiraz. Their migration routes are considered to be among the longest and most difficult of all of Iran's pastoral tribe... - http://countrystudies.us/iran/43.htm 28/01/2005 - Category: Culture - More from this publisher
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IRAN - NOMADIC SOCIETY
Nomadic Society There has never been a census of pastoral nomads in Iran. In 1986 census officials estimated that nomads totaled 1.8 million. The number of tribally organized people, both nomadic and sedentary, may be twice that figure, or nearly 4 million. The nomadic population practices transhumance, migrating in the spring and in the fall. Each tribe claims the use of fixed territories for its summer and winter pastures and the right to use a specified migration route between these areas. F... - http://countrystudies.us/iran/51.htm 28/01/2005 - Category: Culture - More from this publisher
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IRAN - CARPETS
Carpets After the 1979 Revolution, the customary high volume of carpet exports was sharply reduced because of the new regime's policy of conserving carpets as national treasures and its refusal to export them to "corrupt Westerners." This policy was abandoned in 1984 in view of carpets' importance as a source of foreign exchange. Carpet exports more than tripled in value (from US$35 million to US$110 million) and doubled in weight (from 1,154 tons to 2,845 tons) between March and Augu... - http://countrystudies.us/iran/69.htm 28/01/2005 - Category: Persian - More from this publisher
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NERS "BAKHTIYARI MOTIFS"
 Notes on Origins of Bakhtiyari Motifs by Carl Strock This article originally appeared in Oriental Rug Review Vol 14, No. 6 (Aug/Sept, 1994). Copies of this issue may still be available for purchase - please consult the website. . In his book Tribal Rugs, James Opie opened a new door in the study of weaving by suggesting that images found on modem Luri/Balditiyari work might be related to Luristan bronzes from the first millennium B.C. He showed ancient Luristan bronze columns similar in form to... - http://www.ne-rugsociety.org/orr-literature/bakhtiyari-motifs.htm 15/01/2005 - Category: Persian - More from this publisher
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NERS  "RUGS OF IRON"
 Rugs of Iron, Wefts of Stone Restoring Bijars by Holly L. Smith This article originally appeared in Oriental Rug Review Vol 12, No. 4 (April/May, 1992). Copies of this issue may still be available for purchase - please consult the website. . When I am asked which type of rug I most enjoy restoring, my answer is Bijar . I am invariably met with frozen stares of astonishment as though I had suddenly presented my inquirers with Medusa's head. "But isn't that the rug of iron?" they ask, &... - http://www.ne-rugsociety.org/orr-literature/rugs-of-iron.htm 15/01/2005 - Category: Persian - More from this publisher
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NERS  "WHITHER TURKOMANIA"
 Whither Turkomania? by Lawrence Kearney This article originally appeared in Oriental Rug Review Vol 1, No. 10 (January, 1982). Copies of this issue may still be available for purchase - please consult the website. . "And this was the land of the famous horsemen of Tamerlane! New Urgench has fallen on sad days, its streets filled with riders of tiny donkeys. " From "Surveying Through Khoresm", by Lyman D. Wilbur, Nat. Geog., June 1932 If you were in Washington in October 1980... - http://www.ne-rugsociety.org/orr-literature/whither-turkomania.htm 15/01/2005 - Category: Turkmen - More from this publisher
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NOMAD RUGS - GLOSSARY
Glossary ABRASH A word of Turkish origin normally used to describe the color of a horse; it means dappled, speckled or mottled. The term has long been used in the trade to describe the small variations in hue and saturation found within a single color in a carpet. It applies to two distinct phenomena. The first is caused by the crude technology of the tribal and village dyer, which, combined with variations in yarn diameter, makes small variations in the color of yarn dyed as a single batch. In... - http://www.nomadrugs.com/glossary.php 15/01/2005 - Category: Basics - More from this publisher
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HERIZ CARPETS
In Praise of Heriz Carpets by Carl Strock If you visit an auction gallery, you won't find a lot of serious rug people inspecting the room-sized carpets labeled "Heriz" and disputing the finer points of color, design, and structure. The only people inspecting the Herizes will be dealers and interior decorators. Other rugs are for admiring as art, but Herizes are for furnishing, which is odd when you think about it, since Herizes display at least as much creativity as the rugs that are taken more... - http://www.rugreview.com/155heriz.htm 15/01/2005 - Category: Persian - More from this publisher
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