High Point Market always acts as a launchpad for new rug designs and collections. When paired with its keynote series and events programme, this event promises to satisfy visiting rug buyers on the look out for inspiring flooring solutions for the coming year. Entertainment is taken seriously too—this market, performances by the bands Bell Biv Devoe and Funk You will take place on Center Stage at 7pm on Friday and Saturday night.
The young rug company English Village Lane—founded in 2022 by Angie Burge in Birmingham, Alabama—will introduce a new designer colour pom box tool, so their clients have the ability to custom colour their own rugs, with their own customers, at their own computers, enabling them to upload new custom rugs into their presentations and edit in real time.
Nourison Home will offer vintage inspired rugs that embody the spirit of a treasured heirloom in both hand-knotted and power-loomed qualities while Southwest Looms will showcase its hand-knotted Arts & Crafts collection. The Art Ginkgo rug, an beautiful room accent with distinctive ginkgo leaves arranged on stylised geometric stems, will be on show at the Stickley Furniture Showroom.
On the natural fibre front, LR Home’s collections—Pampas, Savannah and Prairie—blend jute and New Zealand wool to great effect. Eliko Rugs by David Ariel has just launched the Desert Threads collection of handknotted wool rugs, inspired by Mauritania’s Tuareg reed mats. The brand will also debut a luxury collection of more than fifty area rugs made from the finest wool, mohair and cashmere and designed by Anne-Marie Barton, the principal of AMB Design. These will be on show at Market Square & Elm, where you will also find Eliko Rug Gallery, S&H Rugs, Bokara Rug Company, Safavieh, Art Resources, Creative Touch, Southwest Looms, Jaipur Living and New Moon.
Delaware-based rug firm New Moon will have at least eight brand new designs fresh off the loom to show, including Nimbus, Ember, Cadmus, Sono, Mamba and Plumage. On the Commerce Concourse you will be able to peruse the latest collections by Rug & Kilim, Obeetee, Nourison Home, Harounian Rugs International (HRI), Loloi, Momeni, Kaleen Rugs, Exquisite Rugs, Couristan Rugs & Carpets and Kalaty Rug Corp. Hamilton Wrenn is home to two creative brands, Feizy Rugs and French Accents and make sure you don’t miss Tamarian at Centennial Wrenn South.
