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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...
New rugs for Summer 2020
We select new rugs for Summer 2020 that represent the best in contemporary design
Photo finish: Tania Johnson Design
Tania Johnson designs contemporary hand-knotted rugs inspired by her photography
The dye master Joseph Carini
In COVER 56, Denna Jones spoke to dyeing expert Joseph Carini, of New York’s Joseph Carini Carpets. Here he offers us an inspiring lesson in colour and experiment
Scandinavia’s new atelier rug company Cappelen Dimyr
Cappelen Dimyr sets the scale for conscious consumerism and slow consumption with its quiet but luxe line of handmade rugs
Glimpses, glitches, and gesture: cc-tapis reveals a new collection
cc-tapis invited five designers to interpret the concept of gesture as hand-knotted rugs for the Gesture Project. Denna Jones investigates
Face the felt
Iranian artist Salman Khoshroo faced the fear of coronavirus by creating portraits in a new medium: felt. Denna Jones learns how making art provides power and comfort in stressful times
The original: The Polonaise
To be truly knowledgeable about design, you need to understand its origins, an idea that seems particularly relevant to rugs. Here we discuss the Polonaise, new versions of which have been in focus recently.
A postcard from Sardinia: Food, fables and fabrics
On a six-day tour of Sardinia organised by the Memory Wefts project, Lucy Upward explores traditional local weaving techniques and textile customs and gets a real sense of the Mediterranean island past and present
Oh so Zeki!
The flamboyant Turkish cultural icon and pop star Zeki Müren was also a talented textile designer whose name has become synonymous with a colourful group of mid-century rugs. In COVER 53 Malika Browne discusses Müren’s work with Istanbul-based carpet dealer and fellow Zeki fan Hüseyin Kaplan