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Hand-dyed wool skeins in every colour, hung in the Rug Gossips dye house

Sample kit

Hold the yarn before you commit.

Send us the colours you're working to — a paint chip, a fabric swatch, a photograph, or a Pantone reference. We dye and wind wool to match and post it to your studio. Free to the trade, anywhere we ship.

CostFree to the trade
ContainsWool or silk wraps on a card
PostedWorldwide
ObligationNone
01

You send a reference

A paint chip, a fabric sample, a photograph of something the rug has to sit beside. Anything physical is better than a screen.

02

We dye to match

Wool dyed by hand in small lots, wound onto a card, and posted to your studio.

03

You approve, then we weave

Nothing goes on a loom until you've held the yarn. The approved sample becomes the standard we're held to.

Ask for a room visualisation at the same time — send a photograph of the room and we'll place the design into it to scale, so you and your client can judge it in the space rather than on a swatch card. Free, with the sample kit.

The colour library

Ninety-eight shades, each with a number.

Specify by number and there is nothing to misread — "colour 47" means the same thing in your studio and at our dye house. Or send a swatch and we'll dye to it, outside the library entirely.

The Rug Gossips wool colour library — ninety-eight numbered hand-dyed wool shades on sample cards

Screen colour is never accurate. This chart is for narrowing down — the physical kit is what you decide from.

Our promise

The yarn you approve is the standard we're held to.

Every colour here is dyed by hand, in small lots, by people rather than machines. That means a 5–10% variation between the sample and the finished rug — and that variation is the point. It's the difference between a rug that was made and a rug that was manufactured.

But variation isn't the same as wrong. If your rug doesn't match the samples you approved, we weave it again — at our cost, with no return shipping to arrange.

Applies against approved yarn samples, within 14 days of delivery, with photographs. Natural 5–10% dye variation isn't a fault. Doesn't cover a change of mind or a size measured incorrectly.