Qashqai tribes usually migrate two times a year south of Isfahan, Fars, and Khuzestan province of Iran (mostly surrounding Fars province), speaking in the Turkish language, similar to Azerbaijan language has many clans. Between different Qashqai clans, only some produce various types of carpets like Qashguli, Shishbuluki, Amaleh, Safikhani, Rahimlu, Ikdir, and Chegini. The Qashguli clan is the most important, and the Shishbuluki clan is the greatest in carpet weaving; Ikdir carpets are privileged and rare and mostly woven for tribe heads. Amaleh and Darashuri clans are well-known because of their kilim rugs.
Qashqai carpet’s design and colors are infinite. Their imagination is impressed by nature, animals and exppressed on their rugs. The types and designs of their carpets are diverce like ancient architectures in geometrical designs and different types like kilim rug, jajim rug, gabbeh rug, saddlebags, and even their tents. Qashqai nomads have different weaving techniques than sedentary Qashqai people. Nomads weave on horizontal looms with yarns that are tokens from their livestock, verse those sedentary tribes mostly weave on a stable vertical loom. “Yallameh” and “Shekarlu” carpet is a very famous style of the sedentary Qashqai tribe. Red and brown are two common colors among the wide range of shining color pallettes of Qashqai rugs.
✔ They are full of little details, mostly with geometric medallions repeated alongside the rug.
✔ Kilim rugs are slit and have sharp, shiny colors with diamond-shaped figures that signify flowers or stars.
✔ Most used colors are red and blue in different shades.
✔ Warp yarns are wool, and usually, the weft is un-dyed brown wool or red wool.