Maryam Bagheri

Maryam Bagheri was born in 1972 in Shiraz. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran. She pursued her passion for textile art alongside her career as a theatre actor. Maryam Bagheri is known as one of the founders of the “The First Thread” group.
In 2005, Maryam Bagheri began collaborating with the Azadeh Yasman brand as a fabric designer and weaver. The following year, in 2006, she teamed up with her friends Setare Eskandari and Mohsen Alikhani to establish a group called “The First Thread.” The primary objective of this group was to design and create handwoven fabrics, specialising in producing exquisite and high-end clothing. By recruiting several experts, they successfully achieved their goal and held regular exhibitions while also operating a permanent showroom until 2013. Since the beginning of 2015, Maryam Bagheri has been working independently in the field of textile art.