The Rug Company<\/a> recently joined RugMark<\/a>, the foundation dedicated to ending child labor in the handmade carpet industry. If you’re not familiar with either you can follow a few links and find out that this is a very good thing, because a major player in the rug industry jumping on this particular boat signals a shift in industry standards of child-labor-free carpets.<\/p>\n

The prices are a little higher, but the particular peace of mind of knowing that a rug is child-labor-free seems well worth saving up for…Plus, there’s some pretty intriguing designs by some kind-of-quirky designers that The Rug Company has up their sleeve…I’m kind of in love with some of the stranger ones, too many to show them all, but here’s a handful:<\/p>\n

(shown left to right)
\nSwirl by Paul Smith<\/a>
\nCarmelina by
\nThe Rug Company<\/a>
\nOverleaf by Marni<\/a>
\nLove Heart by Vivienne Westwood<\/a>
\nPalette by Fiona Curran<\/a><\/p>\n

$32.50- $230.00 per square foot, from a 3’x5′ to a 18’x12′ (this means anywhere between $485.00 to $49,680.00(!))<\/p>\n

To learn more, visit RugMark Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rug Company recently joined RugMark, the foundation dedicated to ending child labor in the handmade carpet industry. If you’re not familiar with either you can follow a few links and find out that this is a very good thing, because a major player in the rug industry jumping on this particular boat signals a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,179],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}