Weaver & Loom is a digital platform that enables interior designers to create bespoke hand-knotted rugs by directly collaborating with unionized artisans in Nepal, eliminating intermediaries and ensuring fair wages. The platform streamlines the design process with tools for visualization, sampling, and customization, resulting in faster production times and improved profit margins for designers.
Funding
$120K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Interior designers face challenges in creating truly bespoke rugs due to complex supply chains, lack of direct collaboration with artisans, and limited control over the design and production process. This often leads to longer lead times, higher costs, and compromised creative vision.
Solution
Weaver & Loom offers a digital platform that directly connects interior designers with unionized artisans in Nepal to create custom, hand-knotted rugs. The platform streamlines the design process, providing tools for visualization, sampling, and precise customization of size, shape, weave, density and fiber selection. By eliminating intermediaries, Weaver & Loom enables designers to maintain complete creative control, reduce production times, and ensure fair wages for artisans, resulting in cost-effective, sustainable, and high-quality bespoke rugs. The platform supports over 1400 color options and can match any POM or Benjamin Moore color code.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes interior designers creating rugs for residential, commercial, and hospitality projects.
Features
- Digital design platform for creating bespoke hand-knotted rugs
- Direct collaboration with unionized artisans in Nepal
- Visualization tools for real-time design rendering
- Unlimited sampling to ensure design perfection
- Selection of weave, density, fiber, size, and shape
- Color calibration with 1,400 color options and POM/Benjamin Moore matching
- Streamlined production process with faster turnaround times
- Commitment to fair wages and sustainable practices