From yarn to loom to handwoven rug: CustomMade.com gets a custom office rug
Introducing Will Hargrove: one of CustomMade’s newest Makers, Will founded Ramri Rugs a decade ago to create unique and inspiring handmade rugs which he calls “art under foot”. The company is based in Bend, Oregon and the team of hand weavers are based in Katmandu Valley, Nepal.
Ramri Rugs combines wool and hemp to create an organic rug published in Metropolitan Home magazine! Available on CustomMade.com
Customers select the pattern, size, and colors (even a digital picture can be turned into a rug pattern!) and Will’s team creates a color rendering and a handmade sample for the customer to approve before the rug weaving gets underway.
CustomMade.com logo rug halfway woven and still on the loom! Created by the skilled weavers at Ramri Rugs
Steve Bears, a guitar connoisseur and a stalwart member of CustomMade’s business development team, initiated what’s becoming one of our coolest custom office projects to date: a handwoven custom rug with the CustomMade.com logo!
Check out these photos of our sensational custom carpet in progress to get a sense of the soup-to-nuts handmade process behind ordering a custom rug from Ramri Rugs.
Step 1: Once you send Ramri Rugs your pattern, size and colors, they create a digital rendering of your custom rug design. For our custom office rug we chose the CustomMade.com thumbprint logo, the stamp of each Maker's individual skills that go into every custom piece
Step 2: The un-dyed yarn is gathered and selected. Ramri Rugs believes strongly in using materials that have gone through natural processes that are eco-friendly
Step 3: the colors used in the rug dyes are prepared
Step 4: The yarn is weighed...
...and the silk is also weighed, on a different type of scale
Step 5: The wool yarn is washed...
...or the silk is washed, using a slightly different process
Step 6: then the yarn is dyed...
...and the silk is also hand-dyed
Step 7: The yarn is now ready to be handwoven into a personalized rug!
Step 8: The loom is carefully prepared and the weaving process begins
Step 9: The completed weaving is taken off of the loom
Step 10: The freshly woven rug is washed
...and cleaned
And now all that remain are the finishing touches before it is ready to ship! We’ll update you with photos as soon as it arrives in our office. In the meanwhile, if you’re interested in customized your own handwoven rug from Ramri Rugs, contact Will Hargrove here.
How specific are your measurements? In other words, if a customer gives you a specific measurement for a specific room, can you and do you make the rug FIT that space? How accurate, or how close, are your measurements — in terms of inches to the SPECIFICALLY required stipulations? Please advise. The first thing we need to consider is the care of size. Is this a reasonable request?…? Thank you so much! Elisa Press;u
Great question, Elisa! In general, anything you order “custom” will be made to fit your space.
You can pose any specific rug questions you have for Will Hargrove of Ramri Rugs by contacting him directly. Here’s a link to his message box on his CustomMade profile:
http://www.custommade.com/by/ramrirugs/contact/
Thanks, good luck with your rug!
Arielle
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