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Green Friday instead of Black Friday: a time to shop rugs with conscience and heart.
A Green Friday to appreciate, reflect and help: 5% of our sales will go to […]
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THE WORKSHOP IN NEPAL DURING CORONAVIRUS
Nepal has been house confined for 11 days now. A few days before the lock-up, some women who have the loom at home, took some wool to be able to carry on working from home.
HOW TO WASH YOUR FAVORITE RUG
Your rug or kilim is a few years old now and you have never washed it? Are you afraid of doing it? In this blog we will explain to you how to do it easily, based on how we saw they do it in Iran and Turkey (they have already done it for centuries).
ELKANO RUG TO CELEBRATE THE 500TH ANIVERSARY OF THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF EARTH
To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation of the world by the Basque sailor Juan Sebastián Elcano, we designed a rug called “Elkano”, which has been woven in a Fair Trade Workshop in Nepal. We have chosen to represent this historic event with a contemporary design.
TRIP TO IRAN!
We just came back from an amazing trip to Iran where we bought wonderful antique rugs, kilims and tribal items from the nomadic way of life. We also purchased contemporary gabbeh rugs. We bought the pieces mainly in the baazars, but also in the most unexpected places like in a restaurant, in homes, and in a pistacho and potatoes warehouse…They are all sooooo beautiful!
Hope you like our rugs as much as we do!
TRIP TO NEPAL!
Just arrived from Nepal I write this BLOG still with jet Lag… I visitted the Fair Trade workshop we work with since 2005. Each season Alistair designs new models, we send them to Nepal, and voilá!, in about 4-6 months we have them in the shop.
All the wool we use is from the Hilamayan high plateau, hand spun so it retains the lanoline and all its natural properties. And of course, the knotting of the rugs is also by hand.
TELESKOPIOA EXHIBITION
To celebrate that Donostia-San Sebastián is the 2016 European City of Culture we have prepared an exhibition, “Teleskopioa”, which reproduces, in rug format, images from the Hubble telescope of NASA. These are spectacular, often abstract, images, showing our planet, stars and supernovae.
The idea behind the “Teleskopioa” collection is that we would like people to reflect on the beauty of our temporary “home” – the planet earth and the space.
Visit to Alpujarra
In Mairena, Alpujarra in Granada, with Lola, from a family of weavers for many generations. Very kindly she showed us the family looms and she shared very useful información about the weaving traditions in this area of southern Spain. The tradition goes back to when the Arabs were in Spain (711-1492).
AKELARRE RESTAURANT
Newly refurbished 3 Michelin star Akelarre Restaurant, has created a new waiting area for customers. In the interior are two of our carpets, “New York” and “Jaspeada”. Bon apetite!