Alinasab comes from Tabriz, where rug-making skills have passed from father to son. Mahmoud learned from his father and personally participates in design, weaving and technical continuity. His interest is in recreating the layers of painted light, perspective and tone in a handmade textile, one knot at a time.
Works and style
Contemporary works
Mahmoud's artistic and weaving explorations focus on translating painted space and tone into knotted rugs. Transitions of light and the distinction between near and distant forms are central to reading the works. The workshop also uses paintings by outside artists; original artists and weavers each contribute, with the image's appeal emerging through its careful translation into textile.
People and heritage
Notes on family continuity
Mahmoud learned rug making from his father as a boy and opened his own workshop in 1987. He subsequently brought experience from television technology into pictorial rug making, exploring finely differentiated, layered images.
Contemporary practitioner carrying the tradition forward
Mahmoud Alinasab
Learned rug making from his father as a boy; established a workshop in 1987 and works in pictorial rugs
People and heritage
Family archive
Alinasab's production tradition includes Mahmoud's training under his father and the continuation of skills among brothers. Mahmoud takes responsibility for design, weaving and technical continuity, bringing family experience to his exploration of painting and textile.
In Mahmoud's personal experiments, light, perspective and tone can be read as textile layers. Workshop output and personal exploration have distinct scopes. Where an outside artist's original painting is used, painting and rug making remain two valuable, separately attributed forms of work.