TY - JOUR

T1 - The entry of the peacock motif into the art of Zoroastrian embroidery

T2 - art of Zoroastrian embroidery

AU - Pashootanizadeh, Azadeh

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - Zoroastrians of Iran are considered the oldest natives of Iran. After the Arab attackon Iran, they lived in Khorasan for a while and then went to Yazd and Kerman. But some of them moved to India. Qajar period, which coincides with the birth ofZoroastrian-embroidery art (Zartoshti-duzi), Zoroastrians from India, who weremostly cloth merchants, came to Iran and helped Iranian Zoroastrians. As someIndian merchants married Iranian Zoroastrian women and described to their wivesabout the peacock (a bird that is not native to Iran) and its beauty. Zoroastrianwomen's mental image of this bird caused various forms of peacocks in Zoroastrian embroidery art. The peacock was very important in the art of the Sasanian era and is reminiscent of the goddess Anahita in Zoroastrianism. Repetition of this pattern symbolically in the clothes of women Zoroastrian artists is a way of reviving their religious thoughts. In this article, an attempt has been made to study the art of Zoroastrian embroidery, which is a native art of Iran, in its birthplace, and to discuss the reasons for the appearance of the peacock motif in this art. Considering that all motifs of this art are inspired by the native nature of Iran, the most important question of this research is why there is a peacock motif (unlike the natural/real peacock) in this art.

AB - Zoroastrians of Iran are considered the oldest natives of Iran. After the Arab attackon Iran, they lived in Khorasan for a while and then went to Yazd and Kerman. But some of them moved to India. Qajar period, which coincides with the birth ofZoroastrian-embroidery art (Zartoshti-duzi), Zoroastrians from India, who weremostly cloth merchants, came to Iran and helped Iranian Zoroastrians. As someIndian merchants married Iranian Zoroastrian women and described to their wivesabout the peacock (a bird that is not native to Iran) and its beauty. Zoroastrianwomen's mental image of this bird caused various forms of peacocks in Zoroastrian embroidery art. The peacock was very important in the art of the Sasanian era and is reminiscent of the goddess Anahita in Zoroastrianism. Repetition of this pattern symbolically in the clothes of women Zoroastrian artists is a way of reviving their religious thoughts. In this article, an attempt has been made to study the art of Zoroastrian embroidery, which is a native art of Iran, in its birthplace, and to discuss the reasons for the appearance of the peacock motif in this art. Considering that all motifs of this art are inspired by the native nature of Iran, the most important question of this research is why there is a peacock motif (unlike the natural/real peacock) in this art.

M3 - Journal article

VL - 9

SP - 115

JO - Indigenous Knowledge

JF - Indigenous Knowledge

SN - 2538-2543

IS - 17

M1 - 10.22054/qjik.2023.72224.1351

ER -