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Bakhtiyary carpets
Bakhtiyary's area have the long
antecedent in carpet weaving .More than 50 percents of
Bakhtiyaries products are in carpet weaving; and have 80000
weavers. brightness of this craft is comes from
Safavie's dynasty but the famous Bakhtiyary
carpet's designers are from Quajar dynasty and
Pahlavies, such as Ahmad-e- nasr-e-
chloshtory.
Bakhtiyarie's dyeing is
in two category:
- domestic Traditional
In this style they use Rubia-tinctorum,
Juglens-regia, Alum,Vine leaf.
- working places
traditional
In this style they use Vat
colors from nile groups and it gives these
colors: Glazed, Light blue,Dark blue, Light green,
Dark green.
In this area dyeing is all in
natural style.
Bakhtiyary carpet's
weave is most on vertical looms and some where
(in large size carpets) is on horizontal looms, and
these are with Turkish knot on two warps,warps are thick and
these carpets are weave with separate selvedge. Single
wefts carpets in this area are called
Bibibaf.
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 Bakhtiyary carpet
and its dyed fibers

Bakhtiyary
carpet
cotton
& wool
Kheshti
design
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In Bakhtiyary areas
Chaloshtor, Ghahferokh(Farokhshahr), Saman,
Shalamzar,Babaheydar are famed in this
idustry. There are different patterns in these areas such
as:
- Kheshti(Diamond)
This pattern
is must using in Ghahferokh. This is inspiration from
Chinese patterns.Brick that is at center the carpet is
special and the others bricks are the same.Usually In this
bricks geometrical designs are useing; and also Cypress
tree's design is useing in these bricks which at various
areas is in different pattern mode. The famous Diamond
Bakhtiyary carpet's producer is Chaloshtor area.
- Ghabi or Sarv-o-kaj(multiple-panel design)
In
this design almost useing flying and
trees.
- Ghab samavari(Samovar
multiple-panel design)
This is in same mode of
Ghabi but in this design they used flowers
- Goldani(Vase
design)
Is in two part:one of them is Plain
weave design and the other is Full vase design;
these are weaving in all of Bakhtiyary areas, but neither
of them isn't same.
- Corner-Medallion
This is
inspirationfrom Isfahan designs; most of them hasn't any
eslimi design in their Medallion. Most of its area
medallion's colors are White, Red, Dark
blue.
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 Corner medallion
Bakhtiyary carpet
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