Rugberry Journal

Grain Wool Rug in Sage in a styled living room, handloom New Zealand wool on a terrazzo floor, shown as a styled render.

The Rugberry Custom Process for Designers

A custom rug moves through four stages: brief, colour, approval and making. This is how each one works at Rugberry for a residential project.

Jute

Wabi Sabi and the Handmade Rug

Wabi sabi finds beauty in the irregular and the worn. Here is how jute and handloom wool rugs bring that quality to an Indian home, and how to tell character from a fault.

Livid Wool & Silk Rug photographed with an open magazine, charcoal lines on an ivory ground.

Ideas

Living Room Rug Ideas for Indian Homes

Four looks for an Indian drawing room, from a soft gradient to a warm handloom texture, with real room photographs and a simple way to choose between them.

Cabella Wool & Silk Rug in Flax in a styled render, late light through sheer curtains across the silk.

Beige Rugs

Coordinating Rug and Curtain Colours

Curtains change the colour of your rug as much as your bulbs do. Here are tonal pairing ideas for sheer and blackout curtains, and when a contrast works better.

Bedroom

Styling a Bedroom Around the Rug

A bedroom rug is the first thing your feet meet each morning. Here is how to style a bedroom around a soft rug, from bedding and wood tones to the hum of the AC.

Amal Rug from Khaled Hashem x Rugberry in a styled render, shown in a render as no real room photograph exists yet.

Collaborations

Statement Rugs: When the Rug Leads the Room

A statement rug works when it is the only loud thing in the room. Here is how to choose one, size it for a drawing room built for guests, and calm everything around it.

Pazo Knotted Rug in a styled South Delhi living room, hand knotted New Zealand wool.

Collecting

Pazo, Ithaca and Fern: Hand Knotted Statement Rugs

Pazo, Ithaca and Fern are Rugberry's statement hand knotted wool rugs. Here is how each one reads, what it costs and how a collector in an Indian city might choose.

Ombré Taupe Rug in a styled living room with a warm grey stone floor, hand tufted New Zealand wool in a slow gradation.

Colour

How Ombre Gradients Are Made in Wool

An ombre rug changes tone slowly from one end to the other. Here is how makers build that gradient in wool, and what to look for before you buy one.

Grain Wool Rug in Sage in a styled living room, handloom New Zealand wool in soft green.

Colour

How Custom Rug Colours Are Matched

Matching a rug to a paint or fabric colour is done with dyed yarn poms, approved in daylight. Here is what to send, and what a close match really means.

Insignia Wool & Silk Rug in a real Indian living room, beside teak panelling, traditional paintings and blue armchairs.

Heirloom Furniture

Contemporary Rugs for Traditional Homes

A modern rug can make heirloom teak look more beautiful, not less. Here is how to choose a contemporary design for a home full of carved wood and inherited pieces.