The research explores the relationship between gender, tradition, and modernity through collaborative hand-made rug production with local rug weavers, in northern Iran. The collaborative practice of rug making is beyond a design project for a utilitarian object with cultural or emotional underlining. It investigates how the local women artisans imagine and represent their womanhood through their hand-made rug production. The practice-research stresses on the ethics of representation and reception of the weavers and the material culture in the modernized region and global world.