Custom Wool Carpet

AXMINSTER | BROADLOOM & TILES | HAND TUFTED RUGS

Stylex in Australia and Warp and Weft Lab in the USA are boutique wool carpet suppliers, managing design and production for luxury commercial, hospitality, senior living, and fine home projects.

Experimenting and coordinating color and design across our products to achieve the perfect blend of form, function and beauty for your project-on time and on budget.

Warp and Weft Lab Has:

• One of the world’s largest color banks of ready-to-sample Axminster wool yarns. With over 1500 colors, we experiment deeper with ideas, adding complementary and contrasting colors into the mix to achieve the perfect color combinations that work for you.

• In-house design and sample creation for a fast turnaround - often only days for you to receive samples in hand.

Warp and Weft Lab Doesn’t Have:

• Automatic answering systems and layers of communication. You speak and email directly with the designer…every time.

• Poor Communication. We exchange emails and ideas frequently during the design process and await your confirming input/response. Fast service requires fast open lines of communication.

• A catalogue of set patterns from which to choose. Bring us your design concept. Show us your plans, show us your color scheme, let us know what you’re thinking, and leave it with us to interpret your ideas and help create your vision.

• Excuses for sample delays. You can have a sample in hand for a single pattern development in 3-5 days. Changes to an existing sample can be overnight if required. Multiple pattern developments can require up to 2 weeks for samples in hand.

Creating a custom wool Axminster carpet? If your new to this process, here’s what you can expect. And if your experienced , then here’s what you know already.
As the specifying designer, your going to be responsible in making choices on pattern, color, scale, layout, and a myriad of other project details. You will likely select a supplier’s pattern or provide them with a design concept or idea, and then choose colors from their color bank.

You will also likely have between 120 and 660 colors from which to choose for your pattern, depending upon the supplier. Some suppliers even have online design rooms where you can play with color using their designs. Once you’ve made your choices and request samples, in weeks or more, the samples will arrive.

Rarely though, will they meet your initial vision expectations. Oops..! Back to the drawing board. Take 2…

More choices, more samples, again and again, until the supplier gets it right or until someone’s patience runs a bit thin. With deadlines near, you may have to run with what you have.

“It’s near impossible to achieve design success simply by choosing a carpet pattern from a book and slotting in colors from a set of poms”

Although it’s a sound argument to start with carpet first in interior design, in the build process, availability can change, and your original carpet choices may become obsolete. Which is why, when it comes to custom wool Axminster carpeting, it’s best to defer carpet design decisions until all other design choices are settled. However, time rarely affords that luxury, as carpet design and sampling from most manufacturers takes quite some time, and often too long, when samples must be made, remade and remade again.

Manufacturers will typically sample what you ask for, without any consideration of the actual design intent, or the workability of the colors chosen. You’re the customer. The customer’s always right…….Right….?

Artistically speaking, the floor is a negative space, just waiting to be filled in a way that hums with the essence of your vision. That’s where we come in. When we can see your vision coming together with fabrics, color selections and floor layouts, then we can get to work to create a beautiful wool carpet that meets your project vision, and fills your negative space just as you had intended, without design or color compromises along the way.

At Warp and Weft Lab we sometimes trial dozens of combinations to strike a delicate and less abrasive color balance. It takes experience, a keen eye for color, and dedication to the result. Without the actual production of multiple trial samples, it’s quite impossible to understand accurately how colors are truly going to work together. A screen won’t cut it at any level beyond initial concepts.

Balancing colors just right is a trial and error art that requires more than a slim 600 color options to develop. At Warp and Weft Lab, we work with over 1500 in stock wool Axminster yarns to create your vision. We like to use Pantone Fashion Home + Interiors referencing when communicating color ideas with you, in the absence of fabric or paint colors. It helps us in knowing where your color head is at for the project.

We trial and sample different carpet ideas in scale, shade and tone to develop pattern and color for your project. Scale, and yarn ratio, affect color perception, while adjacent colors in a pattern affect how all other colors are perceived.

In fact, all colors in a pattern affect every other color within the pattern. Crazy stuff happens with colors when they’re woven into a sample for evaluation. If you’re a designer, you know this to be true. It’s usually not quite what you thought.

At Warp and Weft Lab, we use your project color scheme as our development guide. We won’t send you anything that doesn’t work with your color scheme.