Ancestral Hunting Carpet, 2025
210 x 150 cm
Double weave, embroidery, and wool
Weaved Bedouin carpet created in collaboration with Zam Stork featuring an image I drew of my great-grandmother, then translated into 7-color weave structures. Drawing on traditional Persian hunting rugs, which usually depict hunting scenes. This rug instead shows symbols of tattoos found on my great-grandmother's body.
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
