Influence of Oral Literature on Hand-Knits of Ghashghaei tribes

Public art studies in Iran are severely in interact with discourses of cultural identity. Among them, oral literature due to the verbal indicator and including different fields of historical, social and cultural is an appropriate basis for doing such researches. Singing during carpet weaving is common in the most areas of Iran, but singing during carpet weaving among the Ghashghaei tribes can be considered different from other areas of Iran. The subject of the present study is considering the influence of Oral Literature on Hand-Knits of Fars Province, therefore, with a comparative and analytical approach, some parts of oral literature including songs and lullabies of Ghashghaei tribes of Fars province along with the other kinds of hand-knits of Ghashghaei tribes are analysed in terms of concept and content. In the process of research, the opinions of some thinkers like S.Sperg, Karl Bucher, and Philips Shale and other research resources were used. The results of the present study confirm the close conceptual relations, even mentally, between the songs and the elements, and visual factors of some of special hand-knits among the Ghashghaei tribes. Thus, this article is finalized by drawing the thematic and topical relations between the songs and hand-knits of the Ghashghaei tribes, and also determining a way to recognize the weavers’ thought and culture bases regarding the formation of some of the carpet patterns. The obtained results explain this fact that the songs are considered as the rhythmic factor and even design maker for the weavers which most of the woven designs are imaginative and concerning the creativity of the weavers among the Ghashghaei tribes. Here, song is the factor to transfer the culture and many cultural factors like the wishes, values, norms, believes, feelings and local knowledge to the next generation.