MODERSIA - BESPOKE PERSIAN RUGS
Bespoke Persian Rugs
Modersia - Weave the story of your life

Passion Woven

Bespoke Persian rugs created from the story of your life

Modersia creates unique works of textile art, designed from the passions, ideas, and stories that have shaped who you've become, or where you live - a meaningful history of your life - translated using the timeless design language of the Persian rug - reimagined for modern times.

Each piece is conceived as a personal archive, composed through pattern, structure, and rhythm, the result is a contemporary heirloom: designed once, owned forever, and passed forward as a lasting record of who you are and what you value.
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Our love of brutalist architecture and Persian rugs was brought together with such skill by modersia, mimicking the Persian style with the starkness of the buildings

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An Ancient Language, Rewritten

For thousands of years, Persian rugs functioned as visual biographies. Their borders, medallions, and motifs formed a precise language - encoding belief, status, place, and memory in wool and silk.

Modersia revives this ancient history, following the traditional structure of the Persian rug - its balance, symmetry, and symbolic hierarchy - while replacing historical ornament with the motifs of modern life and contemporary design methodologies. 

Architecture becomes geometry. Obsession becomes pattern. Memory becomes form.

How the rug is used remains the same. Only the story has changed.
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It's been a beautiful experience to see how our rug has been created, from the crafting a personal story, into the final piece.  

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From Life to Loom

Every commission begins with a conversation - a chance to explore what matters most to you, and what you wish to preserve.

Through a careful process of distillation, the themes, structures, and influences that shape your world are translated into a coherent visual language. Each element is considered with intent, allowing meaning to emerge through pattern, balance, and form.

For some clients, the commission begins with a place rather than a person - an estate, a landscape, a family seat that carries its own accumulated meaning. In these cases the rug becomes an act of stewardship - a record not just of who you are, but of what you have been trusted to carry forward.
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The final design is then passed to master weavers and brought into existence by hand knotting over many months, using same original techniques used over 2000 years ago.

This pace allows the work to develop fully - with clarity, depth, and care.

What emerges is a rug shaped by your life and values - a work that reflects you, and carries your story forward through time.
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We wanted something that captured the house itself - its age, the architecture, the beautiful garden and our own design sensibility. Modersia understood that immediately.

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The Artist

Modersia is the work of textile artist and designer Mark Hanlon, whose practice began in 2011 with a deep fascination for Persian carpets - not only their beauty, but their ability to carry meaning across time.

After more than a decade creating bespoke textiles for high-end architectural, residential and hospitality interiors, Modersia represents a return to that original source: the rug as a vessel for story, identity, and legacy.

This work is not about reviving tradition. It is about using tradition precisely as it was intended.
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It was an encounter with a Persian rug that changed my life's direction in art & design. 

I was transfixed by the beauty of the weave, the skill of construction was like nothing I had ever seen - then someone explained the stories woven within. My journey had begun.

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Commissions

A Modersia rug is a private commission, with only a limited number undertaken each year.

Each piece is designed personally by Mark Hanlon and then handwoven by master artisans over a period of three months or more. The process is slow and deliberate, allowing the work to develop with clarity, depth, and intent.

The initial consultation is a conversation, not a brief. Most clients find it the beginning of something they hadn't quite expected.

Modersia works with private clients worldwide.

If you wish to explore commissioning a rug that carries personal meaning and lasting presence, you are invited to request a private consultation below.
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