Our production methods in Bulgaria are thought by The United Nations DP to be of the highest standards and we have for a long time been rated a centre of excellence. The workshop is situated in a small village near the spa town of Velingrad in the Rhodope Mountains in the south of Bulgaria. Raw wool is bought locally and then spun for carpets, it is dyed in small wood-fired pots to produce an ‘arbrash’ similar to the dyes produced in the 19th century - a non-flat colour with degrees of striation, part of the beauty of a hand-made product. We now have more than 600 recipes and can match any existing colour.

Our dye process is designed to have no impact on the local environment, the water in the dye pot is re-used over and over again, starting with the palest colours first, working darker and darker until the end of the day. Even then this water is stripped of dye using the last suspended dye to tint the wool.