When you invest in one of these unique Tibetan rugs, its brilliant presence in your home will remind you that you have made a real contribution in the life of a village carpet maker, her family and her environment half way across the world.

This exquisite carpet art from Nepal is produced with awareness and care by a community of artists living in a small pastoral village near Kathmandu, at the Garuda Woven Art factory.

Each of these rugs, a combination of modern design and ancient Tibetan technique, is prepared solely by hand from fine Tibetan wool and dyed with beautiful 100% natural vegetable dyes. No chemical washes or bleaches are ever applied.

Your purchase supports a way of life that has been designed to meet all the needs of the carpet-weavers, with local housing provided for entire families, flextime, equal pay for men and women (15-25% higher than average in Nepal), free medical care, clothes, and plans to build a school and grow food at the factory.

The use of purely natural dyes protects the health of the local waterways as well as the workers, and creates a market for indigenous dye plants grown by rural Nepalese people.

Look around your home. How many of your things give you a real feeling of connection with where they came from?

Bring home a little corner of the world which represents a rare consciousness in all aspects of production, and supports ecological and human health in ways we can only hope to see more often.