Omid Rahnama

Omid learned to weave as a teenager in a Tabriz workshop, tying the same senneh knot generations of weavers before him had tied, at the same density — often over 400 knots per square inch. He kept the technique and abandoned the vocabulary: instead of medallions and borders passed down from pattern books, he draws his own compositions freehand, then translates them, row by row, into knots that never repeat across the field. A single wall hanging can take four to six months at the loom. The wool is hand-spun and dyed in small batches, so color shifts slightly across a piece the way it would in an old tribal rug, but the geometry is entirely his own. His pieces are reached and paid for through a screened export partner outside Iran, who verifies his workshop and handles the crossing.

Omid Rahnama weaves carpet-scale wall hangings using traditional Tabriz techniques but abstract, non-repeating patterns — carpets never meant to be walked on.

Tabriz, Iran

He wants the knot count of a museum-grade carpet applied to images no pattern book has ever specified.