Saqinameh Carpet Panel (Abdul Rahman Jami)

Come on, bartender, how long will you buy this?

(Abdul Rahman Jami)    

(The story of the wise king and the madman of foreign wisdom, Haft Orang, Eskandari’s Khrodnama)

Saqinamehs were used in the form of cushions (mukhdah) on the couch in the house of master painter Arabzadeh, and when guests were present at the master’s house and each person sat on the couch, one of the saqinamehs was placed on the back of each guest. Since a poem by a famous Iranian poet is woven on each of the saqınamehs, in order to spice up the atmosphere of the party, the master told the fortune of each of the guests based on the poem woven on the back of each person.