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Mira Sohlén’s silver lining
Mira Sohlén creates her improvisational, sculptural, assemblage-like 'shape study' tapestries with a gun tufter—a rug-making technique where a hand-held gun-like electrical tool creates a pile surface in lieu of the traditional techniques of hand-weaving and...
Mira Sohlén’s silver lining
Mira Sohlén creates her improvisational, sculptural, assemblage-like 'shape study' tapestries with a gun tufter—a rug-making technique where a hand-held gun-like electrical tool creates a pile surface in lieu of the traditional techniques of hand-weaving and...
Carpet Diem in Paris
A three-day rug exhibition this November
The softness of experience
Lucy Upward speaks to Signe Emdal about her multi-layered creative process
Wool’s worth
Denna Jones talks to Carol Sebert of Creative Matters Inc and new chair of the Interiors Working Group of IWTO
Meriem Mihammou
COVER introduces the rug designs of Merim Mihammou
Impassable
Designer Bahar Pourmoghadam of Scattered Disc Objects discusses his recent rug collection Impassable, which were made by Nodus and shown during Milan Design Week in June
Swirl interrupted: Paul Smith x The Rug Company
British designer Sir Paul Smith celebrates the twentieth anniversary of his iconic Swirl rug with new versions of the classic pattern
Naked nature: unbleached, undyed handmade rugs—part 2
In the second part of our trend feature on how ‘rugs in the raw’ reflect a new concept of comfort in a COVID-19 world, we look at seven unbleached and undyed natural fibre handmade rugs from global companies
Naked nature: unbleached and undyed handmade rugs—part 1
A growing trend for ‘rugs in the raw’ reflects comfort in a COVID-19 world. In the first of a two-part feature we delve into the background and ask designer Ilse Crawford and nanimarquina rugs to describe how their Wellbeing Collection captures a new kind of comfort
New rugs for Summer 2020
We select new rugs for Summer 2020 that represent the best in contemporary design