Detail of a hand-knotted Persian rug in deep maroon, caught in dramatic side-light

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I — The collection

Many houses. One workshop.

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Woven in Jaipur. Lived with everywhere.

II — Foreword

Each Carpetstory piece is woven by a single artisan, signed by hand, and travels from one room in Jaipur to another, anywhere in the world.

On the World Stage

Shown at Domotex 2012, on the world’s largest stage.

In 2012 our hand-knotted rugs were showcased at Domotex in Hannover — the world’s leading trade fair for carpets and floor coverings, featured on Fashion TV. We had the biggest carpet showcase there, and our key collection was Shalimar.

Domotex 2012 · Hannover, Germany
III — A study in scale

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hand-tied knots in an 8 × 10 ft piece.

Up to 0 knots in our finest weaves.

Knot density
6 to 14 knots per inch
Weave time
6 to 10 months
Made by
One artisan
IV — The materials

A short and considered list of things that touch the floor.

Wool

Imported from highland sheep in New Zealand, where the wool is long-fibered, lanolin-rich, and naturally lustrous. Hand-spun, never machine-carded.

New Zealand

Silk

Mulberry silk imported from China. Used as accent threads in the field, where it catches light differently across the day. Reserved for the finer weaves.

China

Cotton

The warp. The architecture beneath the pile. Long-staple cotton imported from various parts of India, twisted to a density that holds the knots for a hundred years if cared for.

Various parts of India
The colour

Three plants. A river. A roof.

Every colour in a Carpetstory piece begins as a plant, ground or boiled or fermented, then dipped, dried, and dipped again until the wool refuses any more.

V — Heritage

Since 2001, keeping the dust out of the dye.

2001. Carpetstory began as a family export house in Jaipur: looms, dye vats, and a ledger of orders from houses that never asked our name. We wove for others first. It taught us everything about how a rug should be made, and nothing about how it should be signed.

2012. By then our rugs had reached more than thirty countries. At Domotex Hannover, the world's leading carpet fair, we staged the biggest carpet showcase of the fair with the Shalimar collection; Fashion TV filmed it. We came home knowing the work could stand anywhere.

Today. The atelier works under its own name now. One artisan to one rug, six to ten months on the loom, madder and indigo and walnut in the vats. The next chapter is authorship: pieces signed by the hand that tied the knots. The madder red is still exactly the same.

The atelier courtyard, Jaipur
The atelier courtyard, Jaipur
Checking the indigo vat
Checking the indigo vat
The order ledger
The order ledger
From the founder

Carpetstory began in 2001 as a family export house. I grew up around it, and somewhere along the way I noticed the world had stopped looking at the floor.

Carpetstory is a small attempt to make people look down again. Not at the rug — at the eight months it took, and the hands that took them.

AashritAashrit Garg, Founder
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