Yazd textiles of Safavid

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

mansour emame ¹ , mohammadkarim yusefjamali ² , alireza abtahi ³

1 - دانشجوی دکترا تاریخ ایران دوران اسلامی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد نجف آباد
2 - دانشیار تاریخ دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد نجف آباد
3 - استادیار تاریخ دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد نجف آباد

Received: 2016-02-10 Accepted : 2016-02-10 Published : 2013-10-23

Keywords: Yazd Textile , Safavid, Ghiyathaddin Yazdi, erk Yaraqi, weaving, Terma,

Abstract :

Strengthen of Safavid dynasty by kings like Shah Abbas cause the political alliance, trade boom, and road safety. Craft industries were developed in the early eleventh century. this industry gradually reached to its peak on Iran history. Yazd history in the knitting high quality fabrics returns to the early of Islam, and since patriarch period its name was known besides several major cloth weaving center. Yazd reached to a position so that officer named Kerk Yaraqi was responsible for market requirements fabrics. Central government support of textile workshops Stimulate employment in the textile industry and a prominent designer such as Ghiyasoddin Yazdi emerged. He moved to Isfahan and became chief of the Royal Workshops. He was known as the most prominent fabric designer in textile history of Iran. In Safavid era, two technical initiatives occurred in designing and weaving tuple and velvet fabric, which Ghiyathoddin was highly skilled in both of them