Scientific Journal of Pazhuhesh-e Honar

Ardabil province, like any other region has its own hand made industries the most important and attractive of which it could refer to Kilim weavings. Ardabil Kilims has been very important regarding cultural issues because of the reflection of original and traditional motifes and or economic issues that leads to improved economy of this province. However, there has been no significant research on its Kilims. One of the main features of this hand woven that indicates its weavers' ethnics culture are the drawings used in them. Considering lack of research on this issue and lack of comprehensive and written material on the field of introducing motifes and their concepts that was the main issue of the present study, this question is proposed that what the applied drawings of the intended weavings are and what their concept and meanings are. Regarding the high volume of the existing drawings in these weavings, just examining the margin motifes has been done in them. The main purpose of this research is firstly examining and identifying decorative drawings of Kilim margins and then studying the concept and symbolic meanings of these drawings in the present hand weavings. This research is a qualitative study and its method is descriptive in which most of the information has been formulated using library studies and inductive analysis. The result of this research indicates the kind of applied drawings in several margins as connected and disconnected drawings in Kilim woven of Ardabil province that are manifested as plant, animal, celestial drawings and tools used in routine lives of the weavers and natural materials. Each one of this type of drawings has divisions with different concept and symbolic meanings that indicates beliefs of the weavers of this region that have been continued since the past times to the present.