02 / Material
Material
Wool, water, colour, hands.
It begins far from here,
on sheep grazing in New Zealand.
It ends on your floor.
Everything in between is done by hand.
The wool
New Zealand wool.
Long, bright fibres with a spring in them.
White enough to take any colour,
strong enough to stand back up
after every step across it.
The dye
Coloured by hand, the old way.
Each skein is lowered into the dye bath,
lifted, lowered again,
until the colour stops sitting on the wool
and becomes the wool.
No two batches match exactly.
We keep it that way.
The process
Drawing
Every rug begins as a composition, not a pattern.
Wool
New Zealand fleece, spun into yarn.
Dye
Hand-dyed in small batches, using traditional methods.
Sample
A 15 × 15 cm square, approved before anything else is made.
Hand
Made by hand in India, row after row.
The hand
Made by hand in India.
A hand never repeats itself exactly.
A line leans, a tone drifts.
We don’t correct it.
That is where a rug becomes one of one.
Made slowly
Days to dye. Weeks to make.
A rug is slow on purpose.
It is meant to outlast the room it lives in.