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Alternative Christmas Gifts

Our guide to the more alternative gifts that some of our creative collaborators and Rug Stars wish to give and get this festive season.

The Big Sleep: Why bedrooms love carpet with Lorna Haigh

As we start to wrap up for winter, we thought this is the perfect time to discover why bedrooms love carpets.

Steve Bakker, The WoolSafe Organisation: We’re talking Wool Care in Covent Garden!

This month, The Campaign for Wool’s annual wool week revolved around the careability of wool. The highlight was a pop-up installation with two huge containers decked out with woolly fashion, furnishings and flooring, and fitted with 40 AEG washing machines showing how easy wool is to care for. We’re talking Wool Care with Steve Bakker of The Woolsafe Organisation, who’s telling us all about the spills and thrills of caring for wool.

Boutique Zoffany for Alternative Flooring

For the first time, Zoffany’s inspirational design stories are translated into a different cloth, wall to wall carpet. Discover how Zoffany for Alternative Flooring was created. We caught up with Peter Gomez, Head of the Zoffany design studio to talk through the inspiration behind this new collaboration.

Mini Moderns Rug Stars: We’re talking rugs with stars of the interior world.

Creative duo Mini Moderns choose their perfect rugs. Keith’s Rug Stars choice is a Wool Milkshake Coconut rug and Mark’s Rug Stars choice is a patterned Quirky B Honeycomb Moss rug designed with our bespoke Make Me A Rug service.

Sophie Robinson Rug Stars: We’re talking rugs with stars of the interior world

Interior Stylist and TV personality, Sophie Robinson’s Rug Stars choice is a Quirky B Flowers of Thorpe Summer Garden with a single cotton border in Navy. This patterned rug is inspired by Liberty Fabrics Summer Garden design.

Margo Selby Rug Stars: We’re talking rugs with stars of the interior world.

Award winning textile designer Margo Selby’s Rug Stars choice is her own design Frolic Westbrook, a multi-coloured striped rug, that she has teamed with an inner Double Piping Cotton Border in Pink and an outer Stripes Thick Black border.

The Pink House and her new Patterned Carpet

Emily Murray is the founder and editor of The Pink House, an award-winning interiors blog. Emily has chosen our Quirky B Liberty Fabrics Capello Shell patterned carpet for her bedroom, so we thought it’s time to pay a visit.

Lucy Gough Rug Stars: We’re talking rugs with a stars of the interior world.

Stylist Lucy Gough’s Rug Stars choice is a patterned Quirky B Cube Hawksmoor carpet designed by Ben Pentreath for Alternative Flooring.

Kate Watson-Smyth Rug Stars: We’re talking wool rugs with a star of the interior world.

Journalist, author and award winning blogger Kate Watson-Smyth’s Rug Stars choice is a made to measure Wool Pebble Stade carpet with a Thick Stripe Grey border.