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ORBISTHE RUGS ISSUEBaytown's Fulleylove Flooring displays carpet alongside hardwood and vinyl, allowing material comparison before a flooring project is measured. Kyrgyz Handmade makes stitched felt shyrdak carpets in Bishkek, working with local artisans on custom designs. Istanbul's Dhoku Rugs uses traditional hand-knotting techniques for contemporary rugs, with geometric patterns represented at its Grand Bazaar shop.
This plate lists 67 shops in 27 countries. Oaxaca has the most with 7, followed by Istanbul with 5. Among these shops, 3 describe made-to-order work and 4 sell online, going by their own descriptions.
Ask how the rug was made: ask whether it is hand-knotted or made another way, since the method changes the price a great deal.
Ask what the fibre and dyes are: ask whether the wool and dyes are natural or synthetic, and turn the rug over to see the back.
Ask about shipping and returns: agree shipping, insurance and return terms in writing before paying for a large rug.
Use the city plates when they appear below, or open any store for its official door and related ORBIS city and craft links.
Rug & Carpet Dealers · 67 shops, the best first
Baytown, Texas
Jared and Debra Fulleylove bought Hall's Carpet Haus — on Pruett since 1989 — and reopened it as Fulleylove Flooring in 2022. The showroom samples hardwood, vinyl and carpet and will measure at the house.
Best for Flooring-material comparison and project consultation
Kok Jar (Madieva Street)
Kyrgyz Handmade is a Bishkek maker and exporter of shyrdak, the stitched felt carpets central to Kyrgyz nomadic craft, working directly with local artisans on custom designs. Alongside rugs it sells needle-felted toys, silk-wool scarves, felt slippers, and cushions, shipping worldwide from its Madieva Street base.
Best for Handmade shyrdak felt carpets
Takkeçiler Sokak, Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
Contemporary Turkish rug design in the Grand Bazaar — geometric patterns, modern color palettes, and traditional hand-knotting techniques.
Best for Contemporary Turkish rug design in the Grand Bazaar — geometric patterns
Cannes / France
Palais de Perse is a shop for handmade rugs on rue d'Antibes in Cannes.
Best for Handmade rugs
Cape Town
The showroom at 99 Harrington Street, East City, Cape Town designs and manufactures furniture, lighting, mirrors, and mohair rugs and blankets, handmade in Cape Town. Its current CICADA collection uses cast aluminum, steel and metal alloys, and pieces such as the Bahla Chair and Sun Singer Chair incorporate beaten brass, beaten aluminium and hand-rolled copper.
Best for Handmade furniture and mohair textiles
Lebong, Darjeeling
Started on 2 October 1959 to resettle Tibetans who followed the Dalai Lama into exile, this Darjeeling centre still hand-knots wool carpets and carves wooden tables, frames and prayer wheels. Its shop sells thangkas, wall hangings and bronze and copper pieces, with production exported to dozens of countries.
Best for Handwoven Tibetan carpets and crafts
Helsinki / Finland
Rug and home-textile showroom welcoming private clients and design professionals by appointment. This is the Helsinki showroom, not the Kotka outlet.
Divanyolu Caddesi, Sultanahmet, Istanbul
Carpet destination near the Hippodrome — thousands of carpets across multiple floors. The underground museum in a 1,500-year-old cistern is extraordinary. One of Istanbul's most impressive car.
Best for Carpet destination near the Hippodrome — thousands of carpets across multiple floors
Nakilbent Sokak, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey
Two men both named Cengiz, who met working in an Istanbul rug shop, opened Galeri Cengiz in the Arasta Bazaar in 1989 and relaunched it as Nakkaş in 2004 after moving to Nakilbent Sokak behind the Hippodrome. The gallery now holds more than 20,000 carpets and kilims, spanning antique Hereke, Konya, Kayseri, and Bergama weaves alongside contemporary pieces made with traditional techniques.
Best for Turkish carpets and kilims
Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
Sinbad Carpet sells hand-woven vintage rugs, kilim rugs and overdyed carpets from its shop in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, Fatih. It also takes custom orders for contemporary area rugs and Oriental carpets.
Best for Grand bazaar rugs and kilims
Zincirli Han, Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
A carpet dealer in the Grand Bazaar — located in the beautiful Zincirli Han courtyard. For decades, Şişko Osman has supplied Hollywood stars and discerning collectors.
Best for Grand Bazaar carpets from the Zincirli Han courtyard
Jaipur (headquarters)
Jaipur Rugs traces its craft to the 16th century, when Jaipur weavers adapted Persian knotting techniques, and operates from its Jaipur headquarters with showrooms across India and abroad. Each rug passes through roughly 180 pairs of hands across carding and dyeing in more than 3,000 colors, with hand-knotting that can take up to a year and a decorative shearing technique called Gultarash, connecting rural artisan work with buyers internationally.
Best for Hand-knotted rugs and carpets
Karachi, Pakistan
Afghan Carpet (Clifton Block 8) is listed in Karachi for carpet / interior.
Best for Carpet / interior
Lekki Phase 1
CeraCerni's Art Hub opened in 2021 on Akintunde Adeyemi Drive in Lekki Phase 1, filling Lagos' lack of a walk-in creative space. The studio pairs a cafe and gallery, offering wheel-thrown pottery and rug tufting taught by working artists.
Best for Hands-on pottery and rug-tufting sessions
Lahore, Pakistan
Lahore Carpet Manufacturing Co. traces back to a nineteenth-century family carpet-trading business and was formally established in 1949 by Sheikh Ahmed Hassan, one of four brothers who inherited the trade. Now run by a fourth generation, the firm still produces its rugs under one roof, blending traditional and contemporary designs.
Best for Hand-knotted carpets
Lahore Carpet Manufacturing Co. places its formal establishment in 1949, when Sheikh Ahmed Hassan developed a family carpet business inherited with his three brothers. The company describes deeper roots in nineteenth-century carpet trading, but the 1949 date marks the manufacturing firm presented today. Four generations later, the business says it still produces rugs under one roof. That vertical arrangement is more informative than a general heritage claim because it links design and weaving through finishing within the same operation. The first-party history also describes a shift from traditional patterns toward a range that includes contemporary design. Hand-knotting remains the defining production method. Together these details establish a clear profile: a Lahore maker with a dated family succession, in-house production and a craft process that continues across changing styles. The company is not simply a retailer importing finished floor coverings. Its editorial value lies in the manufacturing chain and the continuity of the Hassan family's trade. Buyers comparing Pakistani carpets can therefore begin with construction and provenance rather than surface pattern alone.
Marrakech
Sells handmade Berber carpets woven from 100% natural wool, including Beni Mrirt, Beni Ourain, Boujaad and Azilal styles. Every rug is described as one of a kind, and full customization is offered on the wool rugs.
Best for Handwoven berber wool rugs
Marrakech
Sells handwoven Moroccan Berber rugs, including Beni Ourain, kelims and mid-century styles, from its address on Znikat Rahba in Marrakech. The shop describes its work as sustaining a hundred-year-old rug-making tradition while empowering Berber women to earn income for their families.
Best for Handwoven berber rugs
Marrakech
A family carpet business now in its fourth generation, selling wool rugs where, as the site states, no two rugs are exactly alike. The Marrakech showroom holds thousands of rugs.
Best for Family-made moroccan rugs
Marrakech / Morocco
Soufiane Zarib sells authentic Beni Ourain and vintage Moroccan rugs and Tuareg mats, woven by Berber artisans in the Atlas Mountains and sourced through direct, fair-trade relationships. Its showroom is at 16 rue Sidi Ali Ben Hamdouch, Dar el Bacha, Marrakesh, open daily for visitors.
Best for Rugs, Textiles, Moroccan Craft
Medina, Marrakech
Carpet auction souk — Berber rugs, kilims, Beni Ourain, Boucherouite and vintage carpets piled to the ceiling. Bargaining is essential.
Best for Berber rugs, kilims, Beni Ourain, and Boucherouite carpets piled to the ceiling
70 Dagoretti Road, Karen, Nairobi
House of Treasures Emporium, at No 70 Dagoretti Road opposite The Hub in Karen, Nairobi, stocks furniture, home decor, mirrors, lighting, bed linen, carpets, glassware, artificial flowers, fabric and Africana artefacts, and also houses the Tin Roof Cafe and a beauty salon.
Best for Home decor and furniture
Oaxaca / Mexico
For two decades Fe y Lola has hand-woven wool rugs in Teotitlán del Valle using Zapotec techniques and natural dyes drawn from local plants and cochineal instead of chemicals. Visitors to the Francisco I. Madero workshop can watch the dyeing and weaving in progress and buy directly from the makers.
Best for Zapotec weaving, wool rugs, natural dyes, textiles, tapetes
Oaxaca, Teotitlán del Valle
Huella Carmín weaves rugs, sombreros, pet beds and laptop cases in Teotitlán del Valle on pedal looms using natural dyes and pre-Hispanic patterns, describing each textile as carrying the family's own history. It also runs hands-on workshops teaching the weaving process and operates related ventures Nashun Pets and Casa Carmín.
Best for Pedal loom textiles and workshops
Oaxaca / Mexico
Award-winning Zapotec weaver Jacobo Mendoza and his family make naturally dyed wool tapetes in Teotitlán del Valle, drawing colors from cochineal, indigo, walnut and pericón. Their gallery and taller on Avenida Benito Juárez shows and sells pieces inspired by pre-Hispanic and contemporary designs.
Best for Zapotec weaving, wool rugs, natural dyes, tapetes, textiles
Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca (workshop) / Ventura, California (studio) / Mexico / United States
The Gutiérrez family's weaving traces back through the roughly two-thousand-year-old Zapotec textile tradition of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca.
Best for Family-dyed, cochineal-and-plant Zapotec rugs and textiles
The Gutiérrez family's weaving traces back through the roughly two-thousand-year-old Zapotec textile tradition of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca. Porfirio Gutiérrez began weaving at age 12, left for the United States at 18, and later returned to co-found today's studio with his sister Juana — splitting operations between the family's original workshop in Teotitlán del Valle and a second studio, in Ventura, California.
Juana Gutiérrez is the family's dye specialist, and under her the studio's natural color range has grown from roughly ten shades to fifty or sixty, worked entirely with plant and insect dyes rather than synthetic color. For red, weavers grind dried cochineal — an insect harvested from prickly pear cactus — into powder and combine it with other natural ingredients; further hues come from roughly seven additional plant sources, layered and combined to reach 60 to 70 total tones. The dyeing itself is slow and seasonal: dye plants take five to six months to mature before a four-to-five-hour collection hike, three weeks of dehydration, and nearly a week of dyeing — a single finished piece can take seven to eight months from harvest to loom.
The studio sells directly from its own site — small rugs, table runners, and bags, most under $1,000 — and takes studio visits by appointment at its Ventura address, where it also periodically runs multi-day natural-dye workshops. It brings visitors to Oaxaca as well, to learn from the family and community artisans on site. Gutiérrez's work is additionally gallery-represented and has shown in museums across the US, Europe, and Latin America.
Oaxaca, Teotitlán del Valle
Ruiz Bazán weaves rugs from 100% natural wool in Teotitlán del Valle, with the family handling every step from washing and carding raw wool to dyeing it with natural dyes and weaving it on foot looms. The workshop also makes purses, pillow covers and coasters to order and offers free tours by appointment.
Best for Natural wool rugs from teotitlan
Oaxaca, Teotitlán del Valle
Tapetes Vásquez in Teotitlán del Valle describes itself as a workshop and gallery selling rugs woven from 100% wool on a loom.
Best for Wool rugs woven on loom
Oaxaca, Teotitlán del Valle
Textiles de Lana y Algodón hand-weaves rugs, bedspreads, tablecloths and table runners in Teotitlán del Valle using natural wool and cotton dyed with natural dyes, a technique passed down through generations of craft families. The workshop, at Calle de Fiallo 3a Cerrada #13, takes custom orders and ships internationally.
Best for Hand woven wool and cotton textiles
Palermo / Italy
Shahidi is a shop on Via Vittorio Emanuele in Palermo that sells rugs and ceramics made by artisans.
Best for Rugs and artisan ceramics
Hujum, Samarkand
A carpet-weaving factory and showroom producing and selling hand-knotted silk carpets made with traditional weaving and natural-dye processes. Visitors can observe production from silk preparation through weaving and purchase finished carpets at the factory.
Best for Hand-knotted silk carpets made with traditional weaving and natural dyes
Hujum Street, near Shah-i-Zinda, Samarkand
Three generations of the Badghisi family hand-weave pure-silk and wool carpets, kilims and suzani embroideries, all colored with natural vegetable dyes. Visitors can tour the workshop near Shah-i-Zinda.
Best for Hand-knotted natural-dye silk carpets
Samarkand Bukhara Silk Carpets is a family workshop at 12A Hujum Street in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, near Shah-i-Zinda and the Bibi-Khanum Mosque. It is run by the Badghisi family under Haji Mohammad Ewaz Badghisi, a master weaver of Turkmen origin who at 103 remains a guiding presence, and his daughter Zainab Badghisi, who manages the workshop and handles orders and tours. The family moved to Afghanistan during the Soviet period and returned to Uzbekistan in 1992, and the workshop describes more than three centuries of carpet weaving in the family line. Visitors follow the whole process, from silk cultivation to dyeing and weaving. Dyes come from natural materials such as madder root for red, with walnut shells and onion skins as well as pomegranate skins, and threads are painted by hand so that no two hues repeat. Upstairs, women weavers work the looms in a large shared room. The showroom holds silk carpets and kilims. Suzani embroideries hang beside scarves and clothing, and souvenirs fill the smaller shelves, and the family states there is no pressure to buy. Orders are placed directly with Zainab by phone or messaging app. A video tour by travelling filmmakers Laura and Michael shows the factory floor and the weaving room.
Srinagar
Carpets Kashmir, trading as Khazir & Sons established in 1880, buys handwoven wool and silk carpets direct from village weavers in the mountains of Srinagar, with rugs taking 9 to 18 months to complete at 200 to 500 knots per square inch. The company states 90% of the purchase price goes to the carpet makers in Kashmir.
Best for Handwoven Kashmiri wool and silk carpets
Srinagar
KashmKari traces its craft to its founder's great-grandfather Peerzada Saif-Ud-Din, whose master craftsmen made their first piece around 150 years ago, and sells hand-embroidered Sozni, Aari and Tilla shawls in pashmina, cotton, wool and raw silk, plus walnut wood carvings, papier-mâché and hand-woven pure silk carpets from Kashmir.
Best for Sozni and Tilla embroidered pashmina
Yerevan / Armenia
Artsakh Carpet sells handmade Armenian carpets, rugs, scarves and souvenirs from its Handmade Carpets Salon on the 4th floor of Yerevan's Tashir shopping center, with the same pieces listed on its online shop. Rugs are hand-woven from naturally dyed wool, with prices running from roughly 25,000 to 2,000,000 AMD depending on size and design.
Best for Carpets & Textiles
Reguengos de Monsaraz (near Evora)
The Fabrica Alentejana de Lanificios in Reguengos de Monsaraz weaves mantas alentejanas and rugs on manual looms, a craft the town has kept for over a century. Its merino-wool and blended blankets, in the Premium, Iconica and twill lines, carry the region's striped patterns and grey fringing.
Best for Handwoven manta alentejana wool blankets
Kilima Road, Mombasa
Africa Nomads Art Space on Kilima Road, Mombasa, opened in 2021 as a multidisciplinary contemporary art gallery hosting visual exhibitions plus music, theatre and dance performances. It houses the Akala Art Gallery and includes co-working studios and an artist residency program, open Monday-Saturday 10am-6:30pm.
Best for Contemporary art exhibitions and performances
Oberstaufen / Germany
One of Germany's last hand-weavers, the Allgäuer Teppichmanufaktur in Thalkirchdorf makes pure new-wool carpets on traditional wooden looms, each a certified one-off signed on the back. Rugs can be bought directly at the company's 'Tenne' factory outlet or through its dealer network.
Best for Handwoven rugs, wool carpets, Schurwolle, Made in Germany, textiles
Portland Me / Online
Angela Adams is a Maine design house, founded in Portland in 1998 by Angela Adams and Sherwood Hamill, crafting New Zealand wool rugs, totes and home accessories inspired by the natural world. The brand sells exclusively through its online shop and trade portal, with at least 1% of sales supporting environmental causes.
Best for Home & Textiles, Rugs
Samugheo
Arte Tessile Samugheo has woven furnishing fabrics, carpets, blankets and curtains in wool, orbace, cotton and linen since founder Anna Maria Sanna began weaving in the early 1960s. The workshop, based in Samugheo's industrial zone at Turruia, uses the traditional pibiones and litzos weaving techniques.
Best for Traditional sardinian pibiones and litzos weaving
Old City (Icherisheher) / Online
Azerkhalcha is a Baku house for handwoven Azerbaijani carpets, loom-weaving demos, limited edition pieces. Handwoven in Azerbaijan by professional women weavers; Global export is stated; direct consumer shipping was not confirmed.
Best for Handwoven Azerbaijani carpets, loom-weaving demos, limited edition pieces
Nassau
BDC Living is a Nassau furniture and home decor retailer whose collection is curated by interior designers, stocking furniture, outdoor pieces, tabletop, kitchen, lighting, bedding and rugs. It also offers design services alongside more than 1,000 products in store.
Best for Curated furniture and home decor
Tbilisi / Online
Carpeteria's Tbilisi studio designs and hand-tufts custom rugs and interior accessories, selling pieces like its Fluffy Flower collection through its online shop and hosting weekly tufting workshops for customers who want to make their own. Its rugs have also landed in concept stores in Berlin, including Fotografiska and ZAMT, with Tbilisi studio visits available by appointment.
Best for Rugs, Tufting, Home Decor
Alleppey (Alappuzha), Kerala
Classic Coir Factory manufactures and exports coir mats, matting, rugs and geotextiles from Alleppey, the historic coir capital of Kerala. Its work belongs to the GI-tagged Alleppey coir craft.
Best for Coir mats, matting and rugs
Fes Medina (Talaa Kebira)
A family carpet and antiques house on Talaa Kebira in the medina, established around 1960 and run by brothers Khalid and Abdul Bouzidi Idrissi, holding rugs from more than forty Moroccan tribes. Alongside carpets it stocks antique textiles, wooden doors, pottery, silver jewellery and caftans, shipping worldwide by DHL.
Best for Tribal Berber carpets and antique textiles
South Australia, Pukatja
Ernabella Arts, in the Pukatja (Ernabella) community on the APY Lands, was established in 1948 and is described as Australia's oldest continuously running Indigenous art centre. Artists began with hand-loomed weaving and knotted floor rugs, added batik silk painting in the 1970s and ceramics from 2003, with senior women depicting Tjukurpa, the sacred stories of Country, Culture and Law.
Best for Batik and ceramics from the apy lands
Chișinău
Established in 1978 as Moldova's first carpet manufacturer, Floare Carpet weaves jacquard double-faced wool rugs from its Chișinău mill. Its designers produce both classic Moldovan-pattern carpets and contemporary collections sold across the region.
Best for Woven wool carpets and rugs
Point Cross, Chéticamp, Cabot Trail
Flora's is a gift shop at Point Cross on the approach to Chéticamp, built around the Acadian hooked-rug tradition the fishing community is known for. Alongside wool rugs and mats it carries Cape Breton crafts and souvenirs.
Best for Chéticamp hooked rugs and wool crafts
Müstair / Switzerland
Weaving since 1928 in Sta. Maria, the women of Handweberei Tessanda make rugs, scarves, table and kitchen textiles by hand on looms that are in places over a century old. Pieces are sold in the on-site shop and through the online store, sustaining a rare craft in a remote Alpine valley.
Best for Handweaving, textiles, rugs, silk scarves
Ndia Kuu Road, Mombasa
Imani Collective, based in Mombasa, produces handwoven rugs, textiles, screen-printed goods and dyed wool pieces, and has been a wholesale partner to global brands for over 12 years. It holds Fair Trade Federation Verification and NEST Compliance certifications and currently offers a 2026 Earth Form Collection of rugs and textiles.
Best for Handwoven rugs and textiles
Swakopmund / Namibia
Karakulia Weavers has hand-woven wool rugs and wall hangings in Swakopmund, Namibia, since 1979, now employing more than 15 local carpet-weaving experts under owner Moses Helao. Visitors can book a factory tour, buy stock carpets directly, or commission a custom design through the website.
Best for Handwoven wool carpet workshop
Ichan Qala (old walled city), Khiva
Set up inside the walled Ichan Qala as a project to revive silk-carpet weaving after the craft nearly vanished under Soviet-era collective production, the workshop hand-knots carpets and suzanis using Timurid-era patterns copied from Khiva's own carved doors and tilework. Two on-site workshops handle every stage from silk dyeing to weaving and finishing, and the operation is reachable directly by phone and email rather than through a booking intermediary.
Best for Hand-knotted silk carpets and suzanis woven to historic Khiva tile and door
Maadi (studio), Sheikh Zayed, Giza (flagship)
Kiliim revives Egyptian flatweave by commissioning handwoven kilim rugs, cushions and tableware from artisan communities in Fowa, Qena, Fayoum and Luxor, and has expanded into handmade pottery and blown glass. Co-founded by Noha El Taher, the brand runs a Sarayat El Maadi studio store and a Sheikh Zayed flagship.
Best for Modern handwoven kilim rugs
Heliopolis
Founded in 2018 in Heliopolis, KUFUF commissions handwoven kilim rugs, poufs, cushions and prayer mats from master weavers in Fuwwah, Kafr El-Sheikh, using Egyptian cotton and natural wool. Its name derives from the weaver's beater tool, and its studio on Yosry Nabeeh Street pairs traditional flatweave with contemporary patterns.
Best for Handwoven kilim rugs and poufs
José Ignacio, Maldonado
La Esteña is a home decor shop at the corner of Los Cisnes and Los Tordos in José Ignacio, Uruguay. It sells textiles and rugs as well as furniture and framed pictures for the home.
Best for Design
Mzab, Ghardaïa
M'zab tapis' page states, in French, that if customers are looking for traditional and original M'zab carpets, the business is at their service to help and direct them to experts.
Best for Traditional mzab carpets
Moldavia/Maramures, Romania
The shop sells vintage and handmade wool rugs sourced from Romanian villages, including handwoven wool carpets, Bessarabian kilims, Moldavian textiles and cross-stitch tapestries in Maramures and Oltenia regional styles. It operates from Tuberozelor street in Voluntari, Romania.
Best for Handwoven romanian wool rugs
Tucson
Morning Star Traders has been locally owned in Tucson for over 58 years by Rick and Mary Beth Rosenthal, dealing in antique American Indian art and Spanish Colonial furniture including Navajo textiles and rugs and tribal work from Zuni, Tohono O'Odham, Navajo and Hopi peoples. Frommer's Travel Tips called it possibly the best store of its type in the state.
Best for Antique native american art and furniture
Souk Madinat Jumeirah
N.I.C Carpets deals in handmade Persian and Oriental rugs in silk, wool and cotton, with showrooms at Souk Madinat Jumeirah, Souk Al Bahar and Al Barsha. It offers home trials, custom weaving and interior consultations alongside its stock of traditional and contemporary pieces.
Best for Handmade Persian rugs
Four Corners region
Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas are fifth-generation Navajo Tapestry weavers of the Tabaaha clan, born for the To'aheedliinii clan, raised at the Two Grey Hills Trading Post where their mother Ruth Teller demonstrated weaving to visitors. They teach Navajo weaving workshops at museums, galleries and guilds and co-authored How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman.
Best for Two grey hills navajo tapestry weaving
Zona 1, Quetzaltenango
PIXAN sells textiles made by women artisans in Guatemala. Its collections include rugs and pillow cases as well as pieces for the kitchen and the dining table.
Best for Textiles
Al Quoz
Run by the Shah family, who have traded Kashmiri art for around 150 years, this Al Quoz showroom sells hand-knotted carpets, pashmina and cashmere shawls, and embroidered clothing. Persian, Kashmiri, Turkish and Afghan rugs sit alongside kaftans, jackets and abayas sourced from the region.
Best for Pashmina shawls and hand-knotted carpets
Providence / United States
Family-run for 92 years, Rustigian Rugs sells handmade and custom-designed area rugs, wall-to-wall carpeting, and antique pieces from its showroom at One Governor Street in Providence. The shop also cleans, repairs, and restores rugs on-site and can commission custom designs woven in Nepal.
Best for Rugs, Carpets, Custom Weaving
Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
Tigmi Trading curates handwoven rugs and decorative objects sourced from traditional weavers alongside its own in-house designed rug, furniture and lighting collections. The Byron Bay studio pairs vintage European finds with contemporary makers and plants trees through a partnership with ReForest Now.
Best for Handwoven rugs and design-led homewares
Goreme
Run for some three decades by New Zealander Ruth from a restored cave dwelling in Goreme, Tribal Collections sells hand-woven Turkish carpets, kilims and tribal textiles sourced directly from village weavers. Fixed prices and its 'Carpet 101' talks have earned it a reputation for straight dealing.
Best for Hand-woven carpets and kilims
Two Grey Hills, Navajo Nation, Newcomb
Two Grey Hills Trading Post was established in 1897 and remains one of the few historic posts on the Navajo reservation, sitting between the Chuskas and the Chaco near the Four Corners. It sells Two Grey Hills rugs and tapestries made of hand-spun yarn from naturally colored local sheep in gray, brown, black and white, with about half of local weavers still handcarding wool.
Best for Historic navajo trading post and rugs
Perth / Online
The Perth family makers who've sheepskin-booted Australians since 1978 — and who fought and won the case that kept 'ugg' a generic Australian word. The real, Australian-made article.
Best for The original Australian-made ugg makers
Ontario
Upper Canada Weaving was founded in 2010 by Deborah Livingston-Lowe to reproduce 19th-century Ontario textiles such as coverlets, rag carpets and linens. The Toronto studio weaves custom textiles in wool, alpaca, mohair, linen and cotton sourced from farmers, mills and dyers in the Ontario Fibreshed.
Best for Handwoven heritage textiles
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