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SYLKA EcoSylk©

SYLKA™ Carpets have combined their award-winning collections with the latest sustainable technology to create EcoSylk™ – the world’s firstever luxury carpet made from recycled fibres.

SYLKA™’s circular solution uses a unique process that turns used carpets and rugs, previously destined for landfill, into incredible new EcoSylk© yarn – and it is now used throughout its range.

This beautiful and luxurious carpet is perfect for a wide range of high-end interiors and retains the hard-wearing, easy-to-maintain characteristics for which the brand has won multiple international awards.

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ABOVE: Water Collection by Tania Johnson Design

Photographer Credit: Gavin Kingcome www.taniajohnsondesign.com

Designed with integrity from beginning to end, each rug from Tania Johnson Design conveys a unique connection between inspiration, tradition, and skill. Tania has always been inspired by water, the way reflections on the ripples and waves constantly create new patterns. The Water collection consists of seven finely detailed rugs, each handknotted in the finest Himalayan wool and Chinese silk. To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Tania Johnson Design’s bestselling Water collection, the company is launching several new colours and shapes throughout the year. Tania specialises in translating her textural photographs into unique and timeless rugs, and each design in the Water collection is based on Tania’s photography capturing moments in time created by water. The collection consists of seven designs: Flow, Rainstorm, Ripples, Splash, Waterlines, Wave and Whirl.

The designer has found that her clients are drawn to the gentle, flowing designs in this collection. Each piece is fully bespoke, made to order in any size, shape, and colourcustomisable to work perfectly in any environment. The fibre content can also be changed. Tania and her team work closely with their clients to create the perfect rug for each project and Tania personally works on every design and weaving graph herself to ensure each one, regardless of size or colour, is an individual piece of art.

For each rug, Tania personally creates every weaving graph and specifies each colour used. Following the graph by eye, each intricate rug is hand-knotted by expert weavers in the Kathmandu factory. From the start, Tania wanted to be sure her rugs were produced ethically and to help the communities involved in their production, so has been a member of GoodWeave since forming the business.

ABOVE: The Firesun Collection by Dena Lawrence

Photographer Credit: Sum Effect Photography www.denalawrencerugs.com.au

Dena Lawrence collaborated with the finest weavers in Kashmir to translate the sense of freedom captured in her paintings into handwoven rugs. Dena’s vibrant colours and intuitive designs are dynamic, progressive, and conversational pieces influenced by the Australian landscape, and bridge the earthy elements to the esoteric. They are lively, interactive, and mood-boosting.

The Firesun Collection is a luxurious line of hand-knotted rugs, inspired by elemental forces and the natural world. Each rug is a work of art, finely knotted in Kashmir from 100% silk. The collection employs a high knot density to convey the dynamic movement of Lawrence’s paintings in hyper-real detail. The tightly packed, intricate knots make the rugs durable, and this structural integrity allows the subtle tonal shifts of Dena Lawrence’s paintings to be replicated and enhanced in woven form.

Clifton by Bazaar Velvet

Bazaar Velvet were tasked with creating a selection of bespoke rugs for several rooms of an opulent London home. Each piece that was created for this project is contemporary but uses classical elements of design from traditional weavings.

Each of the rugs needed to be individual in design and colour yet have a synergy that links them all together. They created various designs in-house as a starting point for the project, which were then developed through further meetings that allowed the client and designer to decide on a direction for the pieces.

Once the designs were confirmed, the focus then turned to the consideration of colours and following that the finalised designs were entrusted to their workshop in Nepal to create. Each rug was handmade and took five months to complete. Hand-knotted luxury rugs such as these exemplify premium quality and are made using traditional methods dating back hundreds of years. Skilled artisans work on a wooden loom using cotton threads known as warps, knotting wool or silk yarns around each thread by hand, following each row with a cotton weft thread to keep the knots in place. The rug then undergoes several stages of hand-finishing, including trimming, washing, binding and stretching. The designs and colours that have been developed achieve a balance between classic and contemporary style; each complements the space that it has been tailored to as well as each other. There is a high level of detail for each piece and a thorough understanding of its place in the home. The colours for the bedroom piece remain muted for a serene ambience, yet the colours and fluidity of the textured piece in the dressing room drive a more feminine feeling.

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Inspired by earth, nature, and its striking elements, as well as art and architecture, this collection is designed to transform any room into a grand space. Made of Superior Grade, Hand-Spun New Zealand Wool and Hand-Spun Natural Silk, the collection achieves the highest level of beauty and feel.

The rugs are woven in Bhadohi, India, the weaving capital of Southeast Asia with a reputation for having the world’s most skilled weavers, with the finest materials. The key aspect of this collection is its restrained design sensibility, and extremely focused palettes. The mix of curves, lines, organic shapes, and pile heights makes this collection both contemporary and elegant.

MLM Creation were involved in the renovation of La Samaritaine’s private areas; Prestige Lounges, Private Lounges, Personal Shopping Lounge, and Grand Magasin. Custom made by Marguerite Le Maire in Nepal and India in workshops selected for the quality of their production, the rugs’ have been designed to integrate perfectly into the building which is an architectural jewel representative of the Art Nouveau Style.

A subtle balance had to be found between the architectural vision and expressing Marguerite’s creativity. Despite being unique and colourful, the pieces do not overpower the other furnishing elements.

For the Prestige Lounge, the lobby and main lounge were inspired by the store’s Art Nouveau details. The pattern was drawn by hand for fluidity. MLM Creative decided on creating a graphic dual-colour, feminine rug in the beauty lounge and first private room. The colours in this beauty lounge pop whilst remaining feminine. The piece in the private room also uses daring colour combinations.

The Private Lounge has a simple yet effective design, using masculine colours for a classic look, and in the Personal Shopping Lounge, Marguerite takes inspiration from the Japanese screens present in French decoration. The design for the Grand Magasin features a motif inspired by Chinese ceramics from the Qing dynasty. This is a high traffic area, so it needed to be a rug that could be read in all directions - circular and decorative.

Since 1984, ANTA have followed a tradition in Scotland for designing and manufacturing natural, sustainable flatweave carpet using locally sourced material. After close to 40 years, they believe they have perfected their approach to design, wool buying, dying methods and finishing to ensure they offer a best-in-class product.

The latest carpet collection reflects this dedication and offers new, exciting patterns for use in both traditional and contemporary spaces. Differing widths ensures that they work as hardwearing stair runners, carpets and rugs. The pieces are made with two-ply British wool and woven exclusively in Scotland, which not only helps minimise the carbon footprint but offers a natural, sustainable, long-lasting product.

ANTA believe function is just as important as aesthetics which is why they strive to deliver timeless style with enduring quality. As with all their designs, each is inspired by a contemporary Scot, place, flora or fauna. And this collection is no exception, each has its unique story to tell, from the bright red Ullapool houndstooth named after the red funnelled Caledonian MacBrayne Ferry (which shipped the yarn across The Minch to Ullapool’s port) to the pink, blue and red checked Samuel Peploe, named after the famous Scottish Colourist whose son taught Annie at the Edinburgh College of Art.

The remaining carpets include: Peacock, a plain but striking blue-green plain flatweave inspired by the peacock’s iridescent plumage. Many of which can be found roaming freely around the town of Dunfermline; Flora Stewart, a contemporary take on an ancient family tartan; Seagull, a modern and soft grey flatweave found on the plumage of the noisiest Scottish coastal sea bird; Poolewe, a sophisticated pink and grey houndstooth inspired by the dusky pink sunsets found on the West Coast.

Griglia Collezione By Tappeti Fine

Handcrafted Rugs & Carpets

Photographer: Prue Ruscoe www.tappeti.com.au

Inspired by the interplay of the warp, weft and the intricacy of hand-knotting, The Griglia Collezione is a forwardthinking collection with a wide range of applications, unique in its aesthetic and unmatched in the world of rug designs. “Griglia” meaning ’Grid’ in Italian is a subtle geometry based on the scale of a knot.

GRIGLIA was intricately designed on a grid of squares 2.5mm x 2.5mm, handknotted in 100 knots per square inch by Tappeti’s talented artisans in Nepal. Hand making rugs to this level of intricacy took over 18 months in research and development to enable consistency. This process relied heavily on collaboration with the makers who hand-knot the rugs using ancestorial craft traditions. This collection celebrates weaving and handknotting, with the skill of the artisans at the heart of the design.

Each individual piece was designed in layers using a base grid for an improvisation in directional shapes, textures, and chromatics. The designs are unassumingly complex, detailed, and work with the harmony of the woven texture. The subtlety of the detail in the base of the rug and the movement of the lines of colours brings life to these pieces. The individual’s relationship with the piece changes with distance, where proximity to a piece reveals finite details and distance blurs colours into each other creating gentle spectrums.

Grigila uses biodegradable fibres that are locally sourced in Nepal where possible, and yarns are batch-dyed with non-harmful dye to order to reduce waste and pollution. Tappeti carefully crafted a fresh palette based on extensive trend forecasting and took inspiration from traditional sources for a unique aesthetic. This collection is made to order, customisable in scale, size, shape and colour, so that the collection can suit any space.