Naghmeh Kiumarsi
Fashion Designer

Category: Heritage & Motifs

Every pattern has a history. This category is about the textiles, motifs and traditional garments that shape Iran’s visual language, things like Shah Abbasi and Eslimi patterns, handwoven fabrics such as ikat, termeh and daraayi, and the traditional clothing worn across Iran’s regions, from Qashqai to Bandari to Gilaki. These are the details that quietly show up again and again in Naghmeh’s designs.

Handcrafted Buttons: The Signature of Authenticity in Naghmeh Kiumarsi’s Designs

Square hand-engraved brass panel with a symmetrical floral motif and arabesque border, Isfahan qalamzani

Some details are easy to miss at first glance. A button, a small metal ornament, a hand-engraved clasp — none of them shout for attention. Yet these are precisely the elements that give a garment its character. In Naghmeh Kiumarsi’s designs, these handcrafted pieces are not tied to any single collection; they return, again and […]

Daraayi: The Persian Ikat Thread Running Through Kiumarsi’s Collections

Close-up of hand-woven Persian Ikat silk fabric, known as Daraayi from Yazd, showing colorful horizontal bands in muted tones of yellow, olive green, pink, beige, and blue with characteristically soft, blurred edges created through the traditional resist-dyeing technique.

Long before a single thread touches the loom, a daraayi weaver has already decided what the finished cloth will look like. That’s the paradox at the heart of this Iranian textile tradition: the pattern exists before the fabric does. It is tied into the yarn, dyed into place, and only revealed, thread by thread, as […]

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