The Seven-Color Tiles of Golestan Museum Palace were inspired by the designs and colors of the Qajar period in a seven-color and watercolor style.
According to ISNA, Soheila Naghizadeh, the head of the pottery and ceramics workshop of the Traditional Arts Research Group and the executor of the Haftrang (Seven-Color Tiles) Tile Revival Project, said that tiling is one of the original arts in Iran.
The best examples of which exist in the Golestan Museum Palace. She mentioned the color of the tiles and the effect of the eye-catching colors of red and yellow, which still have a special place in the production of tiles, and introduced one of the Qajar-era tile artists as painting brick tiles called seven-color tiles.
The artist added: “Due to the beauty and variety of colors and designs in the Qajar period and the variety of this type of tiling in Golestan Museum Palace, a project called prototyping of Golestan Museum Tiles was done in the pottery and tile workshop of the Traditional Arts Research Group under the management of Seyed Abdolmajid Sharifzadeh.”
According to her, this Seven-Color Tiles project has been executed as a prototype and inspired by the designs and colors of the Qajar period with seven colors and watercolor style.
Naghizadeh referred to the field research and research that has been done in the field of Seven-Color Tiles and designs to achieve and close to the design and glazing in the style and context of that period, and added: “Changes have been made in different parts of our work.”
Head of Pottery and Ceramics Workshop of the Traditional Arts Research Group of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Research Institute: Katayoun Giti (designer and curator), Maryam Sayehvandi (curator), Alieh Najafi (maker of glazes), and Farhad Farahibakhsh (baker). These were the organizers of this project.