• Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.25-32
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to categorize the types of design composition and analyse the characteristics of patterns expressed in persian carpets. For this study, 188 works of Persian carpets were selected out in the book "Carpet & Rug" and contents in the internet sites of www. carpetwordwide.net/, www.jafarnet.com/. The types of design composition expressed in Persian carpets were classified into the following categories. 1) Medallion design composition 2) Mihrab design composition 3) All over design composition 4) Vase design composition 5) Garden design composition 6) Moharamat design composition 7) Painting design composition 8) Tree of Life design composition 9) Plant Pattern design composition 10) Mosaic pattern design composition. Patterns expressed in Persian carpets were Mosk pattern, Tree of life pattern, Lotus pattern being related to their religion and Hunting picture patterns related to their real life. In particular, various patterns of beautiful flowers, plants, trees, animals such as birds, insects and stream, beauriful landscapes were expressed in Persian carpets.

• Acta Via Serica
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.153-178
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• 2022

This study analyzes the traces of East-West cultural exchange focusing on the palmette pattern expressed on Sassanid Persian and Silla Korean carpets. The results of the study are as follows. The palmette, which originated in ancient Egypt, is an imaginary flower made up of the transformation of a lotus, which combined with the Mesopotamian quadrant (四分法) and expanded to a four-leaf palmette and further to an eight-leaf palmette by applying the octant (八分法). The palmette, which was brought to Assyria, Achaemenid Persia, Parthia, Greece, and Rome, can be seen lavishly decorated with plant motifs characteristic of the region. Sassanid Persia inherited the tradition of the palmette pattern, which applied the quadrant and octant seen in several previous dynasties. On the one hand, it has evolved more splendidly by combining the twenty or twenty-one-leaf palmette and the traditional pearl-rounded pattern decoration of Sassanid Persia. These Sassanid Persian palmette patterns can be found through the palmette patterns depicted on the ceilings of the Dunhuang Grottoes located on the Silk Road. The palmette pattern of the Dunhuang Grottoes was expressed in the form of a fusion of Persian Zoroastrianism, Indian Buddhism, and indigenous religions. In the Tang Dynasty, it shows the typical palmette pattern of four and eight leaves in the medallion composition, which were mainly seen in Persian palmettes. The palmette pattern handed down to Silla can be found on a Silla carpet, estimated to be from around the 8th century, in the collection of Shoso-in (正倉院), Japan. The Silla carpet shows a unique Silla style using motifs such as peonies and young monks, which were popular in Silla while following the overall design of the Persian medallion.