Tucsonan Sam Seemann creates fun, pop culture-inspired rugs through his online shop Red Bottom Rugs.
Elvia Verdugo If you were to ask 27-year-old Tucson native Sam Seemann a little over a year ago what he’d be up to today, he probably wouldn’t have said “making rugs.”
“Of course, I had to do Pedro Pascal as the subject for my first portrait rug,” Seemann said. “I've been obsessed with him for a minute now and I feel like I was really able to execute his likeness. It was just super fun and gratifying to have this idea that seems like it was kind of over the top or that it was going to be too much to do a photorealistic portrait, and then just being able to pull it off, basically, as well as I was hoping I could. It has been my favorite one so far.
“If my fiancée hadn't really encouraged me and gotten me the equipment to get started, I don't think I probably would have done it myself. But with their encouragement, I've really been able to kind of turn this into a hobby and into another job,” Seemann said. The process of creating a rug is a lot more complex than you might think. Seemann starts out with a fresh needle punch cloth on the frame, then projects the designs on the blank canvas to trace them and mark where the colors will interact .
Most of his designs are one of a kind, meaning he usually doesn’t recreate them unless it’s for a commission.
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