Our Story
We are not here to sell floors.
We are here to weave heirlooms.
CarpetArtisian began, like most lasting things, with a disappointment.
In 2018, our founder went looking for a rug for a small apartment in the West Village. Nine showrooms later, she had a choice: a mass-produced import that looked exactly like the one in her neighbor's hallway, or a hand-knotted piece with a six-figure price tag and a twelve-month wait. The craft she loved was either commoditized or cordoned off.
So she did what any determined person does. She got on a plane.
Over the next two years, she visited weaving villages in Bhadohi, ateliers in the Atlas Mountains, and a family-run silk studio outside of Jaipur that has been working the same looms for seven generations. She met spinners who could feel the grade of wool in the dark. Dyers who matched palettes by memory. Knotters whose daughters were learning the trade at age ten — not because they had to, but because they wanted to.
What she found was a simple truth: the world does not need more rugs. It needs fewer, better ones.
The Craft
One rug. A dozen pairs of hands. A hundred decisions.
Every CarpetArtisian rug is hand-tufted or hand-knotted — never machine-made. The wool is sourced from New Zealand's South Island, where the highland flocks produce a fiber with exceptional lanolin content (the natural oil that gives our rugs their quiet sheen as they age). Silk, when used, comes from our partner studio outside of Jaipur, reeled by hand and dyed in small batches.
The design studio in New York draws every pattern from scratch. Nothing is licensed. Nothing is copied. Every piece passes through our atelier's 14-point finishing inspection before it crosses the ocean to your home.
What We Stand For
Four promises, no footnotes.
Fair work, always.
Every atelier we partner with is GoodWeave-certified. Child labor is not a footnote in our supply chain — it is forbidden. Weavers earn above-market wages, and many own equity in their studios.
Honest materials.
Pure wool from New Zealand. Pure silk from Jaipur. Botanical dyes where possible. No blended fibers disguised with marketing copy.
Made to be inherited.
A well-made rug lasts a century. We design with that in mind — from the density of our knots to the strength of our selvedges. Every CarpetArtisian piece is covered by our Heirloom Promise.
Slower, on purpose.
A bespoke rug takes three to five months to make. A stocked piece ships in days. We will never rush the loom to meet a calendar. The wait, we have found, is part of the gift.
Come Say Hello
Visit our New York showroom.
Touch the weaves. Meet our team. Bring a paint chip, a mood board, or just your coffee. Private appointments available.
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