Made by
hand Held by
time

Hand-knotted in Jaipur over eleven months on a single loom for the rooms that haven't been built yet, and the ones that already feel like home.

Begin the conversation
A letter from the loom

Most things are made to be replaced.
A hand-knotted rug is made to be inherited not to match a room, but to outlast every room it lives in.

The Rug Chalet · Jaipur, India · Est. 1976
No. 01 — The Collections

Four ways of looking at a rug.

A rug is never only itself. The same patient weave turns formal in a library, warm beneath a dining table, quiet beside a bed. Four rooms, four moods, one loom - four ways of looking at a single craft.

Frond
No. 1A — The Featured Chapter

Frond — The Tradition

botanical detailing, woven slowly

Persian floral medallions, knotted slowly over eleven months on a single loom. The form you'd find in a Mayfair library from 1922, woven now in Jaipur by the same families that have done this for three generations.

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Bestrew
No. 1B

Bestrew

A sea-blue lattice softened with salmon and ivory. Made for the hush of a bedroom and slow mornings.

 Kermes
No. 1C

Kermes

A deep madder field bordered in indigo, dense with palmette and vine. Warmth for the table, and the long evenings around it.

 Grille
No. 1D

Grille

A sky-blue Persian field strewn with fine florals. Airy enough to lift a living room, calm enough to keep it still.
b&w · hands at the loom
No. 02 - A note on slowness

A rug takes eleven months on a loom in Jaipur, then sixty years on a floor in Antwerp. The slow part happens before you ever see it, thousands of knots tied by hand, one at a time, by weavers who count their work in seasons rather than hours. By the time it reaches your floor, the haste has already been knotted out of it.

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No. 03 - The Studio

Bring a Sketch. We will weave it.

Five thousand archive designs to choose from, or a blank loom. The studio will translate your reference - a photograph, a memory, a painting into a hand-knotted rug, proportioned and dyed to your room.

Design your own
Ledger rug · Ledger
No. 04 — The Rug This Month

Ledger

A modern abstraction · the unwritten page

Not a pattern but a field - pale, weathered wool scattered with marks like fragments of a forgotten manuscript, in charcoal, sand, slate-blue and a single thread of red. Knotted entirely by hand; the faded surface and drifting forms are the loom's own, never a machine's. A contemporary piece, still warm from the loom made for the room that prefers a question to an answer.

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No. 05 — From the Journal

Notes from the loom.

All letters
For the long evenings

The room you'll grow old in.

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Letters from the loom

One letter, once a month.

Occasional notes on new rugs, the craft, and the rooms our work finds. Nothing else.

No. 06 — The ledger

What the loom leaves behind.

A handful of numbers, recorded honestly the ones that mean something to the families weaving for us, and to the villages around the studio in Jaipur.

Weavers
312 families

Hands at the loom across seven villages near Jaipur the same families for three generations.

Fair wage
2.4 × regional

Weavers paid above the regional fair-wage benchmark, reviewed annually with independent audit.

Looms
84 restored

Heritage looms repaired and returned to working order from a 1976 frame

School
147 enrolled

Children of weavers in the studio's continuing-education programme. Uniforms, books, fees covered.

▸ figures recorded · 2023 · audited spring