Varni Market: Social Biography of Weavings from Lumah-Darah to Tehran

By ethnographic experience of weavings called Varni, I want to say somethings about northwest nomads of Iran and Tehran society. Movement of Varni by motivation of market cause to rethink about nature of objects and processes of landscape-making anthropologically. Exploring biography of cultural elements and forms became fascinating works among anthropologists. Social biography of objects like Varni shows how beeing and entrance of objects to different places contextualize them in different value systems. Varni market in recent decades relife plastic art traditions in Lumah-Darah which demonstrated itself in works such as carpets, jajim, rugs and farmash. Varni market make Tehrani people in multi-sensory relation with Lumah-Darah and open multi-sensory landscapes of mind in buyers through place imaginations emerges. Exploring Varni market anthropologically shows that how enacted meaning replace coded meaning in objects. Analysing Varni market shows differents between actions in Luma-Darah and Tehran people and how these societies think and act to each other. Message of this essay to art and craft researchers in Iran is to free themselves from meaning- center discurses and library and museum base situations and experience art works in moments of action.