The making of a rug
Each Monolith and Heart rug passes through many pairs of skilled hands before it ever reaches your floor. Fibre is sorted and spun. Colour is mixed and set in small, considered dye batches. The design is marked out on the loom. Then the slow part begins — knotting or weaving, row by row, sometimes by a single weaver, sometimes by two or three working the same piece in sequence. Once the weaving is done, the rug is washed, stretched, dried in open air, and hand-trimmed to even the pile before a final quality check. A single large hand-knotted rug can take several weeks of loom time alone, which is one reason we make every piece to order rather than to stock.
Made fairly, on purpose
We work directly with weaving workshops in and around Delhi that we've built relationships with over time — not an anonymous subcontracting chain we can't vouch for. The principles we hold every partner to are simple and non-negotiable: fair wages, safe working conditions, and no child labour, ever. Respect for the individual doing the work sits underneath every decision we make about who we work with.
Hand-knotted vs handwoven vs flatweave
Hand-knotted rugs are tied knot by knot around a warp, giving them exceptional density, depth of pile, and heirloom-level durability — the kind of rug you hand down. Handwoven, or flatweave, rugs are lighter, reversible and beautifully textured, better suited to relaxed, everyday spaces and layering. Table-tufted pieces are built by punching yarn through a stretched backing, giving a plush, plusher pile at a more accessible price point. We'll always tell you exactly how each piece in our collection is constructed, and why it's the right choice for the room and the life it's going into.
What goes into a rug
Wherever we can, we choose natural fibres — wool, jute, cotton, hide — alongside responsibly reclaimed materials like recycled cotton, respun yarns, and repurposed leather over synthetics. Some of our flat-weave and outdoor-friendly pieces are woven from yarn reclaimed from post-consumer plastic, a single one of which can keep several hundred plastic bottles out of a landfill. It's better for the planet, and it simply makes a better rug: one that breathes, wears beautifully, and softens with age instead of breaking down.