We’ve been working with a client in Chicago for over 30 years

We’ve been working with a client in Chicago for over 30 years.
Like us, he comes from a multi-generation rug family.
Craft runs in his blood.

One day, he sent us an old black-and-white photograph of Wrigley Field – taken decades ago, when he was a child.

No mood board.
No design brief.
Just one question:

“Can you turn this into a rug?”

We knew immediately this wasn’t a decorative project.
It was personal.

So we made one clear decision:
We wouldn’t modernise it.
We would respect it.

The rug was woven exactly in black and white.

At 9 × 6 feet, woven in 11/11 knotting, it required 30–35 shades of greys to create depth, shadows, and light.

Only 2–3 master weavers could execute it.
It took 6–7 months on the loom.

When it was finished, it didn’t feel like a product.
It felt like a moment frozen in time.

None of us knew then that this rug would start a timeline.

P.S. Years later, this story continued with the same stadium, in colour.
I’ll share that next.