Product Notes
About our factory:
Goodweave Certification: The GoodWeave Standard assures that goods are produced without child labor, forced labor, or bonded labor. Certification requires complete supply chain transparency on the part of the manufacturers, who in doing so show their commitment to children’s rights, worker’s rights, and strengthened worker communities.
Care & Fair Certification C&F is an initiative aimed at ending child labor in India, Nepal and Pakistan. Certification is met by adhering to a strict set of set of protection guidelines ensuring that no child labor was used and that workers enjoy a good quality of life and fair wages.
The production unit which manufactures our rugs is 100% dependent on solar energy, and all hand tufted weaving machines are run using solar energy
Our factory established and fully funds a school with a current enrollment of 140 students.
Recommended use:
Our High Low rug styles are most suitable for low to medium traffic areas.
General:
Handmade in India by skilled artisans
Our high-low pile hand tufted rugs are made from 100% Tex wool, which is comprised of only the longest and finest fibers of New Zealand wool (think of it as New Zealand wool yarn’s greatest hits). Due to its fineness Tex yarn takes color with more vibrancy and sheds much less than other wool hand tufted rugs (though as with any hand tufted rug, shedding may occur and can be controlled with regular vacuuming).
After dying the yarn in small batches using eco-friendly pigments, skilled artisans weave our designs using a tool which pushes the yarn through a backing. This process is called hand tufting. After fully tufting the rug, artisans shear the pile by hand into varying pile heights to achieve the "high low" effect.
A note on shedding: During the shearing process, rug fibers may become embedded in the body of the rug. Although they eventually make their way out, it may take some time for them to do so. As a result, shedding will occur in the first weeks or months of owning your rug. This will decrease over time, but, depending on the use they receive, may in some cases take months to subside. This will be the case for any hand tufted rug, however the use of Tex wool yarn greatly dimishes the amount of expected shedding. None of our rugs are treated with any chemical coatings (including stain resistant and fire retardant finishes). However, the natural coating of wax on each wool fiber helps prevent moisture from penetrating the surface, and wool is a naturally stain-resistant and fire retardant material.
Handmade in India by skilled artisans
Recommended use:
These hand tufted motif rug styles are our most durable rug and suitable for high traffic areas.
General:
This rug is our most durable and easy to maintain rug. It’s tight weave can better withstand tears and pulls, and the fact that it is only minimally shorn (leaving the loops intact) means that it will hardly shed. Our one caveat is for pet owners - these same loops may prove irresistible for scratching, and once pulled, cannot be mended (though they can be trimmed).
Our rugs are constructed by skilled artisans who dye the yarn using eco-friendly dyes before weaving our designs using a tool which pushes the yarn through a backing. This process is called hand tufting. Once the rug is fully tufted, artisans leave much of the rug loops and randomly shear selected areas by hand.
A note on shedding: During the shearing process, rug fibers may become embedded in the body of the rug. Although they eventually make their way out, it may take some time for them to do so. As a result, shedding will occur in the first weeks or months of owning your rug. This will decrease over time, but, depending on the use they receive, may in some cases take months to subside. Since most of the rug is loop with only small portions of random shearing, shedding should be minimal compared with other hand tufted rug styles.
None of our rugs are treated with any chemical coatings (including stain resistant and fire retardant finishes). However, the natural coating of wax on each wool fiber helps prevent moisture from penetrating the surface, and wool is a naturally stain-resistant and fire retardant material.
Recommended use:
Our bamboo silk rug styles are most suitable for low to medium traffic areas.
General:
Approximately 1/3” thick
Handmade in India by skilled artisans
Our rugs are constructed by skilled artisans who dye the yarn using eco-friendly dyes before weaving our designs using a tool which pushes the yarn through a backing. This process is called hand tufting. Once the rug is fully tufted, artisans shear the pile by hand into varying pile heights to achieve the "high low" effect.
Bamboo is a natural viscose and rugs made from bamboo silk yarn, which lends it a soft and cool hand feel. While it has a reputation for being a delicate fiber easily damaged by water or crushed by furniture, vigorous cleaning, or foot traffic, we have also found them to be quite durable. Depending on your preference, you may or may not mind them being a little lived-in, especially as their subtle iridescence tends to conceal imperfections.
While we still consider these most suitable for low traffic areas, we love them and the subdued glamour they add to our home.
Due to the nature of how these are tufted there may be small marks from the tufting process on the bamboo silk rugs.
None of our rugs are treated with any chemical coatings (including stain resistant and fire retardant finishes). Due to the nature of how the bamboo silk rugs are tufted they may carry with them small marks from the tufting process.
Recommended use:
Our flat weave rug styles are most suitable for medium to high traffic areas.
General:
Handmade in India by skilled artisans
Our rugs are constructed by skilled artisans who dye the yarn using eco-friendly dyes before weaving our designs onto a loom. The rugs are then stretched and finished. Our flat weave rugs offer a lightweight and slightly more casual update to our signature hand tufted rugs. Their texture is pleasantly scratchy (think vintage wool sweaters), but if you prefer a softer feel, you may want to check out our hand tufted rugs styles (the bamboo in particular is very soft). Alternatively, if you crave an even more rustic rug, we also have woven hemp rugs rugs.
None of our rugs are treated with any chemical coatings (including stain resistant and fire retardant finishes). However, the natural coating of wax on each wool fiber helps prevent moisture from penetrating the surface, and wool is a naturally stain-resistant and fire retardant material.
Recommended use:
Our hemp rug styles are most suitable for medium to high traffic areas.
General:
Handmade in India by skilled artisans
Hemp is an ecologically friendly plant that requires little water and no pesticides to grow. It is also renewable and biodegradable as well as naturally antimicrobial. And very durable. In short, hemp is the perfect fiber for the future we are embracing. If the flat weave rugs are pleasantly scratchy, our hemp rugs are more like a pony's braid. They are rustic, yet refined and look fantastic layered.
None of our rugs are treated with any chemical coatings (including stain resistant and fire retardant finishes).
As part of our commitment to reducing waste in manufacturing, we began using leftover yarn for our Deadstock rug collection, which we will add to intermittently as leftover yarn becomes available at our factory. A bit of background: the artisans we work with in India dye all yarn for our rugs - and the rugs of all the other companies they work with - to order. Since it can be difficult to gauge the precise amount to dye, there is often leftover yarn in very specific colors and amounts (sometimes a lot, sometimes as little as a pound). We initiated a program with our factory to reuse this leftover yarn, which would otherwise wait - until a new order called for it, or perhaps forever. Each of these rugs is limited edition, in many cases using colors and/or yarns that we don’t ordinarily incorporate. Pricing is based on the yarn quality, which differs depending on whether it’s Indian wool or New Zealand wool, or bamboo or viscose. Some styles will have 10 pieces, some will only have 1, but in all cases, once a style is sold out, it’s gone forever.
About Our Factory:
Small family run factory in India of 20 employees
Social Accountability International Certification: SA 8000 is an international certification standard measured by a company’s adherence to social accountability in the workplaces: child labor, forced labor, health and safety, free association and collective bargaining, discrimination, disciplinary practices, working hours, and compensation.
The Global Organic Textile Standard Certification: GOTS is the worldwide leading textile processing standard for organic fibers, including ecological and social criteria, backed up by independent certification of the entire textile supply chain.
Global Recycle Standard Certification: The GRS is an international, voluntary, full product standard that sets requirements for third-party certification of recycled content, chain of custody, social and environmental practices and chemical restrictions.
Knitted in Peru by skilled artisans
Made in partnership with a network of artisan craftspeople across Peru who specialize in low impact production practices and are fair trade certified by PromPeru.
We selected alpaca yarn for these and many other attractive qualities, one of the most important being its sustainability. Alpacas natural habitat is agriculturally unfriendly, and where they do graze, they only nibble the tips of grasses and other plants that make up their diet, meaning that root systems are not damaged and can easily grow back. This, combined with the fact that their feet are padded (rather than hoofed), means that they are gentler on the landscape and vegetation than other fiber-producing animals like goats and sheep.
All our wallpaper is made in the USA and is exclusively made with water-based latex inks and eco-friendly grounds. The packaging the wallpaper is shipped in is recyclable and biodegradable.
Our wallpaper is sold by the yard, instead of pre-packaged rolls, to reduce waste during installation and allow for flexibility with order quantities.
Knit blankets
About Our Factory:
Small family run factory in USA
Our knitted throws are made in small batches by a family owned company that has been operating knitting mills since the early 1900s
Yarn is domestically sourced recycled cotton blend
Quilts:
Handmade in India by skilled artisans using GOTS certified organic cotton
Handmade in India by skilled artisans
Process: Once we finalize design and approve colors the factory purchases the yarn (they use an acrylic/wool blend as it is smoother for embroidery purposes). The yarn is then dyed to match our colors and chain-stitched using hand embroidery machines. After the designs are completed and inspected, they are washed and the backing and zipper are applied, before ironing and packing
Handmade in India by skilled artisans
Process: Once we finalize design and approve colors the factory prints our designs using Oeko-Tex approved inks onto a soft, prewashed cotton slub.