• Autumnal Equinox

    Here is the yellow, orange, green, brown, red and bright pink of autumn leaves in the Midwest that inspired the colors in our Harvest colorway. Sometimes when I am talking to customers on the phone and their computer monitor is not showing the colors very well, I ask them to visualize an autumn hillside at the height of fall when the colors are their most varied and vibrant.  When they ask how the carpets will coordinate with their hardwood floors, I say “beautifully”.  Any floor made of real wood is a color combination already found in nature.  It follows effortlessly then that all the autumn leave colors, and the rugs…

  • Help us fight illegal child labor in the rug industry.

    Here’s a four-minute video about the work of GoodWeave (formerly RugMark) in its efforts to bring about an end to illegal child labor in the carpet industry. By purchasing a GoodWeave-certified carpet, you help support the work of rehabilitation, schooling, and training of former child slaves. We’ve always been strongly committed to the GoodWeave organization and its work. It is a fabulous non-profit organization, run in a lean and effective manner by people with a passion for their cause. Learn more here. Then please come back and order a rug! 🙂

  • What to do with new designs…

    Bloggers whose core business is not blogging face a unique set of challenges. It’s hard enough to keep a blog filled with new and interesting content when blogging/publicity/PR/social media is your business; it’s even harder to do when writing a blog post is not a core competency, but just one more thing on an already packed to-do list. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. Anyway, after a recent Twitter conversation about this with award-winning interior designer Tobi Fairley , I was inspired by her short, sweet, and colorful post about a recent purchase.  I thought, “Hey! I can do brief and colorful.” So here’s a picture, along with…

  • Are they really worth a thousand words? You tell us.

    We have several new photo albums on our Flickr page, and we’re adding more sets and photos all the time. In addition to the recent set of photos from our weaving workshop, we also have a growing assortment of pictures of custom order carpets and photographs of our carpets in clients’ homes. View all sets on our Flickr page.   Originally published 5/31/2009

  • How it all began

      Like so many other things in this midwestern college town, it all started at the Goodbye Blue Monday coffeehouse, where Northfield’s glitterati and those with no visible means of support come to bond over lattes. During an otherwise typical morning coffee hour in 2002,  Davis and Freud were introduced by a mutual acquaintance, and the conversation quickly turned to… wool. Tracy Davis was the owner and proprietor of a retail gallery which sold antique and contemporary oriental carpets, and Danielle Freudenthal was the Vice President of Marketing for the last fully vertical woolen mill in the USA. One thing led to another, and a by 2004 the two had established…