Ancestral Hunting Carpet, 2025
210 x 150 cm
Double weave, Dictatorship Blue embroidery, and wool
This double-weave rug translates a drawing of my great-grandmother into a woven textile structure. The image is based on the tattoo symbols found on her body and was developed through pattern making, digital weaving, and distortion.
The work was created in collaboration with Zam Stork. It was developed through a deconstructed approach to weaving traditions, imagining how they might continue if they existed today. A drawing of my great-grandmother was translated into seven-colour structures using a digital Jacquard loom. Drawing on Persian hunting rugs, the hunting scenes are replaced by tattoo symbols found on her body.
From the solo exhibition Decolonizing Lines, Gallery KC, Göteborg, 2025.
Embroidery detail done by hand on the double weave with cotton thread dyed with Dictatorship Blue.
From the exhibitiion “Decolonizing Lines” at Gallery KC, Göteborg 2025. All images by Hendrik Zeitler
This project was supported by
