Studio Kaleen Rug 1
04 / New Arrivals

just arrived from the loom.

Our newest additions — quiet forms, considered materials, and the kind of textures you'll want to touch before you buy. First come, first chosen.

06 / Rug Care Guide

protect your
heirloom.

A hand-knotted rug isn't furniture — it's a living object. With the right care, it doesn't just survive the years; it matures into something more beautiful than the day it arrived. Our guide covers everything: daily routines, seasonal care, and the questions professionals actually get asked.

Read the Care Guide
Caring for a luxury hand-knotted rug
09 / The Making

from the loom
to your floor.

A hand-knotted rug is not manufactured — it is grown. Each one passes through months of skilled human effort before it earns the right to enter your home.

Explore the Full Process
Design & Blueprint
01

Duration

1–3 weeks

Every masterpiece begins on paper.

Design & Blueprint

Our designers sketch intricate patterns — Persian medallions, geometric tribals, abstract contemporaries — painstakingly translated into a colour-coded blueprint. Every knot placement is mapped before a single thread is touched.

Yarn Dyeing
02

Duration

3–7 days per dye lot

Colour is never an accident.

Yarn Dyeing

Skeins of pure wool or silk are hand-dipped into dye vats — sometimes using vegetable extracts, sometimes chrome dyes for colourfastness. Each hank is stirred, rinsed, and sun-dried until it reaches exactly the right shade. There is no shortcut to the right colour.

Hand Knotting
03

Duration

16–20 weeks

One knot at a time. No exceptions.

Hand Knotting

The weaver sits at a vertical loom and, following the blueprint row by row, ties each individual knot by hand — looping yarn around the warp threads and clipping the excess. A single square foot of a fine rug can contain over 300 hand-tied knots. A 9×12 rug: millions.

Washing & Stretching
04

Duration

1–2 weeks

The colours come alive.

Washing & Stretching

Once off the loom, the rug is hand-washed with formulated solutions, scrubbed gently with bristle brushes to bring up the pile, then stretched and sun-dried. This is when the design truly reveals itself — colours deepening, texture softening, proportions settling into place.

Clipping & Finishing
05

Duration

1–3 days

Perfection, by hand.

Clipping & Finishing

The pile is evened with large scissors — a skilled art called clipping — revealing the rug's final pattern with crisp clarity. Fringes are cleaned, edges are bound, and the entire piece undergoes a rigorous quality inspection before it ever leaves the workshop.

Every piece in our collection has been through this journey. The rug you choose carries within it thousands of hours of human devotion.

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