Antique rugs are hundreds of years old. Every single one of them is natural fibre. Synthetic fibre rugs on the other hand last 3 to 5 years on average. The cheaper ones last one. The pile breaks down. The colour fades unevenly. Then it goes into landfill, where it sits for decades because synthetic fibres […]
Dyeing is one of, if not the most important part of making a rug. Here is why.When someone walks into a room and sees a rug – the very first thing their eye reacts to is colour, not the design or the texture.Colour.Design is secondary. Texture comes only after they touch it. If you get […]
The best moment at The First Layer was the loom. We set up a small loom at HōmAnAn and let a weaver from Jaipur work through the show exactly as he would in our workshop. Interior designers, architects, art curators – people who have spent their careers working with beautiful things walked into that room […]
Everyone wants to own something nobody else has.At the The First Layer show in Delhi I saw that up close. The moment people understood what One of a Kind rugs actually means that this specific rug exists once and can never be made again, something changed in them. I had to tell a few people […]
What happens when two people who care deeply about the same things decide to work together? The First Layer. Me and Anubha sat down after the show to talk about what brought Understorey and HōmAnAn together and what came out of it. Why the collaboration made sense. What the show felt like from the inside. […]
I think of my father in many ways. For a large part of my life, he was a protector. At work, I grew up watching him do extraordinary things. His instinct for colour, design, texture I still don’t fully understand it. In 2011, I took a trip with him to Hannover, Germany for the Domotex […]
I will be honest about what today feels like.Proud. Proud of the Master weavers who made every piece at HōmAnAn. And grateful to Anubha for building a space worthy of it. The First Layer is open at HōmAnAn, Greater Kailash II, Delhi. Today and tomorrow. 11am to 5pm. This is a moment I have been […]
Most people think hand-knotted rugs are made from wool or silk. We work with over 100 different raw materials. Mongolian cashmere. Pure hand-spun silk. Pure Hand-carded wool. Each one catches light differently. Each one feels completely different underfoot. Come and experience the difference in person.9th and 10th May at HōmAnAn, Greater Kailash II, Delhi. Understorey […]
We decided to name this show The First Layer because a rug is exactly that. The first decision in any room before the furniture, the walls, the lighting. And yet in most homes it is chosen last. We wanted to change that conversation. The First Layer is Understorey‘s first ever showcase in India. Hand-knotted rugs made […]
A hand-knotted rug takes months to make.Sometimes close to a year. The weaver who makes it ties every single knot by hand, carries the pattern in memory. Makes thousands of decisions a day that nobody will ever see but that determine everything about what the rug becomes. Next week that work is in Delhi for […]
