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Cyrus Patte

Ali Arababadi

cyruspatte@yahoo.com.sg

004591721884

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PATTE

A variety of hand sewn embroidery named Patte is made by women in Kerman

for living; they spend lots of time and eye sight on the colorful stitches. The

basic cloth and the threads they use is simply colored pure wool.

This is a "Patte" cushion on the carpeted ground used to offer to the visitors and

guests to sit down and lean on long before chair and sofa took their place.

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Patte weaving is one of the most beautiful weaving methods on cloth and is

undoubtedly one of noblest from of handicrafts in this country and delicate

hands of diligent artists of Kerman have special skill in making them.

In Patte weaving string and cloth have main applications.

For this braid string or hand spanned string with green, orange, yellow, red,

light red, blue, turquoise, black, dark green, scarlet, dark grey and dark green

while wool, condom and linen cloth are used.

Each Patte consists of two sections. The sides and the background. Designs of

the background are: “Boteh Jeghaey”, “Toranj (a kind citrus fruit). Almond

flower, tree design. Animal designs specially birds.

Side designs Include geometric figures, Slimi flowers, scroll, trunk Slimi and

Khataee.

First the design is sewn onto the cloth, then gaiter weaving or chirography

weaving is worked in, the background weaving is done and finally sides

weavings are clove in a zigzag fashion that is known as “Patak weaving” or

“germ weaving.”

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Patte weaving and its products are usually hand woven like “Sajadeh” (a cloth

on which prayer’s apparatus are put), “Ja-Namaz” (a smaller cloth on which

prayer’s stone is put on), curtain, shoes sheeting, truss, bolster and etc.

All of these products have a meaning with everyday life of people of Kerman

and magnifies creativity and zeal of the artists.

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Patte woven cover of shah Nematollah’s Vali tomb in Mahan of Kerman is

among the interesting samples of this Art.

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Different plans:

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