A hand-woven Loom & Living rug

Meet the founders

Six generations of hands. One decision to share them.

After a century of weaving quietly for other people’s names, our family is now selling directly, from our looms to your home.

1925
Family at the loom since
Six
Generations of weavers
Bhadohi
Where our looms are

The inheritance

A craft learned before it was ever a business.

Our family has made rugs since 1925. For the elder generation, the loom was not a business but a birthright — a craft learned in childhood, refined over decades, and handed down with the same care as the patterns themselves. For most of that century, our rugs were made quietly, for the world’s design houses, their origins rarely named.

The looms are in Bhadohi. In 1925 our first buyer, an Englishman named Mr. Singleton Binda, came looking for the workshop on a bicycle, and a crowd gathered, not to stare at the visitor, but at the “new machine” balanced on two wheels. Today the sixth generation carries the work forward, and we still look at every rug ourselves before it leaves.

The elder generation at the loom

The vision

The same looms. The same families. Now, your home.

We founded Loom & Living to change one thing: to let the people who live with our rugs know exactly whose hands made them. After years of making for others, we are opening our heritage directly to the home — the same looms, the same families, the same standard, now offered to you.

For us, a Loom & Living rug is not a product but a continuation of something our family has done for a hundred years. We want it to feel as though it was always meant to be in your home.

Come and see the work

Every rug has hands behind it.

Browse the collections, or tell us about your room and we will weave something for it.

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Saim Ansari & Rifa Waziri

Co-Founders, Loom & Living