Merida has recently started a contest to help promote the sustainable aspects of our rugs directly to consumers and designers.  The winner this month will receive one of my favorite designs from our greenest rug collection, Abaca,  Malaybalay in Bark (pictured below). Its organic structure and deep rich color evokes a warmth that can liven up any room and bring the outside in.  Sign up here for a chance win!

• Malaybalay – Bark

Interior design is becoming more and more environmentally conscious and with that products are being created to help support this demand. As a textile designer, I can’t imagine designing a fabric that doesn’t have a green story supporting it. The idea of blanketing our earth with synthetic fibers feels suffocating.

Thankfully, I can design textiles with these morals in mind. Abaca is a great example of this. It’s handwoven in the Phillippines of undyed, unbacked fibers that are rapidly renewable. The local farming and artisan communities that grow, process, and weave abaca are thriving in part because of our business. I love that I can design textiles that have such a small impact on the earth and that have such great stories behind them.

One of these fabulous sustainable rugs could be yours by signing up at our ‘Win a free area rug‘ contest. (I only wish the contest was open to employees as well!!!) Good luck!