Ajide embroidery (layers embroidery, cotton embroidery)

Ajide in Persian means suturing, pricking, inserting needle or awl or scrapes the bulb in something (Amid Culture p. 44). Ajide embroidery means finely stitching on two layers of fabric with a thin layer of cotton in the middle. Ajide embroidery or cotton embroidery is a form of traditional face embroidery of Iran and has deep roots in Iranian traditional arts. Detailed information is available about its history but the oldest documents are of the Achaemenid. Because the area of below of quiver belts in Achaemenid era is given liners with a layer of embroidered cotton cloth so heavy weight does not bother the carrier (Book Review of Haysnty's needle, selected Saba, p. 104). From that period onwards numerous examples have been seen in Parthian and Sassanid Haydvran carvings. And also in Islamic period until Safavid this sewing had relative spread. That in this period, as well as at Afsharieh, Zand, and Qajar. Ajide artists chose tiny design for Calico cloth’s face and they made it Ajide. This type of sewing was more often used for decorating pillow, duvet, bed linens, clothing, hats dervish, needle bundle (A ground cloth, which in ancient time people took with themselves when they went to bath and after the bath to wear clothes they flat it under their feet), Mat, blankets, etc. and various designs will be created by sewing on fabric