Journal
Luxury Designer Rugs for Every Interior Style
A well-chosen rug is more than just a decoration; it embodies the essence of a space. It anchors the furniture, softens the space, and adds texture, warmth, and identity. A luxury rug can elevate the atmosphere and bring your timeless, classic interiors or bold, contemporary modern art together.
5 Sept 2025
Choosing the Right Hand Knotted Rug
With a wide range of styles to complement your individual taste, there’s a rug for every kind of home, from traditional home styles to modern city apartments. Whether your style leans towards classic or bold, every piece is thoughtfully designed, ethically crafted, and hand-knotted with care.
Here's how our most iconic collections align with different aesthetics perfect for everything from traditional British interiors to contemporary minimalist homes.
For the Bold Recommended Collection: In-house, Artist collaboration
If you’re drawn to daring design and vibrant energy, these statement rugs transform any space into a gallery.
In our In-house c collection we have pieces including Hudson, a monochrome masterpieces with bold silk brushstrokes on a Tibetan wool base - striking, sophisticated and award-nominated.Watercolours blends 86 pastel tones, pinks, lilacs, greens and blues into one of our most intricate designs. For added luxury, a 100% silk version is also available.
In our artists collaboration collection, creative vision comes to life. Dreamland by Nat Maks channels Suminagashi marbling into soft swirls of pink, orange and gold. Puppies on the Track by George Morton-Clark, explodes with vibrant reds and yellows capturing his bold street-art aesthetic.
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For Timeless traditionalist Recommended collection: 17th-century, Vintage & Traditional
If your space is filled with character, think antique furnishings, mouldings, libraries, or gallery walls, you may gravitate towards traditional rugs that evoke history with a modern twist.
The 17th century collection reinterprets classical designs with soft palettes and painterly textures - Phoenix is one of the pieces, it draws from a 16th-century Persian book cover, featuring mythical creatures and gold arabesques with an embossed, oxidised finish.
Our Vintage and traditional collections, including rugs from our collaboration with Turquoise Mountain, showcases handcrafted pieces using naturally dyes Ghazni wool and fine persian knots.
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For Modern Minimalist Recommended collection: In-house, Artist collaborators
Calm, intentional interiors often speak through texture, tone, and restraint. In these spaces, a rug becomes a grounding presence, something that doesn’t demand attention, but quietly enhances everything around it.
Our In-house collection includes pieces like Ombre Charcoal which brings subtle drama through a gradient of neutral tones, shifting from dark to light. Made from yarn wastage, this design reflects both aesthetic and environmental consciousness, transforming textile remnants into something timeless and quietly luxurious. Balance & composure brings subtle geometry and texture through soft shapes and muted colours creating a calm yet striking focal point.
Our artists collaboration collection has pieces like subiksha by alicia gimeno, bringing a layered sense of stillness and abstraction, inspired by her travels through Nepal. Its delicate composition and earthy tones invite calm and contemplation, aligning beautifully with minimalist aesthetics.
For Texture Enthusiast Recommended Collections: Textures, Kilims & Flatweaves
For those who appreciate the feeling of a space just as much as the look of it, textured rugs offer depth, softness, and quiet visual interest. Our Textures Collection focuses on subtle surface variation, blending high-low weaving, hand-carving, and natural fibres. Pieces like Chunky Cactus, woven with wool and sustainable cactus, or Persian Darie Maze in wool and silk, bring a grounded, organic quality that enhances calm, contemporary interiors.
In our kilims and flatweaves, texture meets storytelling. Tropical Safari infuses playfulness and colour into the floor with handwoven illustrations of elephants, parrots, and giraffes, a joyful piece crafted in fine Tibetan wool. Meanwhile, 1920s Shapes, inspired by Bauhaus design, balances simplicity with architectural form, using high-low weaving in silk and wool to bring geometric rhythm to any room.
These designs aren’t just about how a rug looks, but how it feels, how it lives in a space, and the quiet richness it adds with every step.
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Origins
Visionary Women shifting the Pattern
Behind every Knots rugs lies a story of artistry, tradition and collaboration. But woven even deeper into the fabric of our work is the story of women – visionary, resilient and driven by a desire to create something meaningful. This journal is a celebration of two such women: Bonnie, the founder of Knots Rugs, London and Dolma, one of our most trusted and long-standing production partners based in Nepal. Though worlds apart their lives and work are beautifully linked by a shared passion for rugs, deep respect for craftsmanship, supporting communities and a commitment to empowering women together.
Production
Natural Materials behind every Knots Rug
Each Knots rugs rug weaves a narrative rich not only in color and design but also in materials. The rugs are intricately crafted from materials sourced from the lush silk fields, the majestic Himalayan highlands, and the green hillsides covered with wild nettle. Our rugs are born from nature’s own palette, woven with materials that are as thoughtful as they are beautiful. At Knots Rugs, our work begins long before a single knot is tied. It starts in nature, where the finest, most ethical, and sustainable fibers are found. We work with all the different fibers in the world, from Tibetan wool, Chinese silk, wild silk, nettle, hemp, and cactus.
Production
How a Rug gets its Colours
When you’re thinking of a design for a rug, the first thing that might come to your mind is the intricate pattern or overall artwork. But behind the allure of each beautiful rug lies an important and complicated process which often goes unnoticed - the art of selecting colours.