Merida celebrated Earth Day by sponsoring and attending Artist for Humanity’s Greatest Party on Earth at the Epicenter in Boston! We were honored that AFH wanted to use our rugs to decorate the event. Our Marketing Manager Carrie and I worked closely with Phi Design Group to select rugs that would fit with their 70′s theme. We chose great statement pieces that complimented all the students artwork surrounding the event. (Please refer to the Merida blog for more details on the event.)
Pictured below are 2 of the 5 rugs that were chosen, our new tufted Ombre design in green and our Glow Optics Orange. They were both produced at our manufacturing facility in Fall River, MA.
- Our new Ombre rug represented the “Green” carpet as you walked through to the entrance, and our Optics rug in Orange was a hit on the second floor mezzanine lounge!
Below are pictures of our Fall River rug making for the party:
- The machine pushes yarn through a stretched screen that follows the design path of the Ombre stripe pattern.
- The Ombre rug tufting is almost complete. Its final size was 6′wide x 30′long after it was seamed together.
- Here Optics from our Glow collection is tufted as a 13′circular rug.
- The loop pile is tufted first, then the cut pile fills in the spaces.
All in all the party was a blast and the rugs looked beautiful! It was wonderful to be apart of such a meaningful event and to see so many people support this great cause.
