Welcome back, me! After a long and lovely family visit, I’m easing into the daily routine. Which means that I’m still feeling a bit lazy. I’m looking forward to catching up with y’alluns, but first I would like to thank the fabulous Collyn of ModFruGal for sharing her amazing, inspiring home while I was away. If you were a naughty imp and you missed her home tour, catch it here.
Greetings and formalities are out of the way, so let’s get down to bizness — rug cruising.
Rug? Who? Wha? Yep, it’s a little hard to see past the tongue, but there’s a rug in there. Somewhere. Designed by Bartoli, the Rosetum is part of Nodus Rugs‘ enormous, eclectic rug collection. Featuring everything from the merely mundane to the beyond bizarre, Nodus stands at the forefront of the art rug movement.
Take, for example, this twist on the traditional by design duo Studio Job.
Perished Persian’s pattern is formed by tiny interlocking forms.
This one’s named Eros. Since we are a familyish blog (cough), I’m not going to zoom in on that.
Nodus does feature an array of more classic forms, like these fine specimens:
But their most interesting offerings seem to fly in the face of traditional warp and weft rugs.
And then there’s this dude from the ever zany Brothers Campana. Computer: zoom in.
WANT Mr. Nest in the worst way.
Brothers Campana rug caption:
“Sale on gray pants at the GAP!”
That graph paper rug is the best! I want it. Now.
gold stars are overrated
but those rugs are beyond awesome
ok, i’m just bad at one line captions, gold stars actually are very cool and I’m sure all of our reader should fight to the death for one.
Call me boring but I like Mr Nest best!
LOL I think Raina already won the gold star.
When I look at the Brothers Campana rug all I see is mass suicide. Though I suppose the conspicuous glasses of cool aid are missing.
http://wemakecarpets.wordpress.com/ – why i stumbled upon this site last night, i know not, but you might enjoy a looksie.
this rug kind of grows on you, huh? (moan – so bad) I see a jonestown massacre as well when I look at that one.
re-e-mail me the link again please for the kiddie headphones when you have a momento. thanks!
Eros is my favorite of the bunch! You’re right, I need a Carpet Sail! I can see myself lounging out with a nice tall glass of lemonade.
I want the first rug, minus the guy and his tongue, for my dining room. Swooonnnn.
Caption – for SNL fans of old “Oh no, Mr. Hands!”
Oh my gosh, Mr. Nest is just gorgeous!
That last rug looks like some crafter’s misguided mix of cornhusk dolls and hand-hooked rugs. Crazy ugly.
“…and the sarin gas sets in…”
Ladies, I’ve just stumbled upon your blog and it feels like I’ve accidentally discovered a treasure trove. Love it!
I’m going to bed now, will explore more tomorrow. The blog was just added to my favorites.
Thank you and good night.