Ancestral Hunting Carpet, 2025

210 x 150 cm

Double weave, 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 and translated into a seven-colour weave structure. It draws on the visual language of traditional Persian hunting rugs, where woven images often depict scenes of pursuit, animals and power. In this rug, the hunting scene is replaced by tattoo symbols connected to my great-grandmother’s body and to ancestral knowledge from the Euphrates region.

By bringing these markings into a woven form, the work considers how interrupted traditions can be carried, altered, and reimagined through contemporary textile technology.