Bunyaad Artisans – Fair Trade | Bunyaad Rugs

Celebrating International Women’s Day Traveling in Pakistan with Bunyaad

Jenni Leister — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:21:17 +0000

On March 8, 2025, we were thrilled to have so many people join us online as Yousaf and Jenni took us with them as they journeyed through Pakistan. Our North American friends met Bunyaad rug artisans and experienced the magic of rug finishing and designing right before their eyes. It was the perfect adventure to...

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Flooding in Pakistan

Bunyaad — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:18:17 +0000

In the last three weeks, Pakistan has been inundated with flooding covering a third of the country especially as the world continues to deal with long and short term effects of Covid. This has devastated the economy and destroyed crops, livestock, homes, schools and businesses, as rivers overflow with melting glaciers and heavy monsoon rains....

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Meet rug artisans Parveen and Anwar

Bunyaad — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 20:28:38 +0000

We LOVE telling artisan stories. It's what connects us deeply with the individual people behind each rug that comes and goes through the doors of Bunyaad. Each one of them has their special skill and their unique story.

Take a moment to get to know Parveen, a rug knotter, and Anwar, a rug designer.

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Taking the Loom with Her, Sabah trains more Women

Bunyaad — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 22:49:41 +0000

In our digital world many of us can easily work while on the road or move cross country and still be able to do our job. Working on a heavy duty loom doesn't seem to provide you that flexibility. Or does it?

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Natural Dye for Eggs and Rugs

Bunyaad — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 15:00:05 +0000

Have you ever tried your hand at dyeing eggs with natural dyes?

Naturally dyeing eggs is truly a labor of love. It speaks to my instilled love for eating healthy. Collecting and prepping all the ingredients like onion peels, purple cabbage and chopped beets shows dedication. Allowing the eggs to simmer in their dye bath for 30 minutes or even overnight for truly stunning deep colors is worth the wait.

When I look at our naturally dyed Chobi Tribal rugs and our Kazak Tribals, I have a new appreciation for the amount of work that goes into producing one of these rugs.

Naturally dyed chobi rugs are roughly 100 knots per square inch but take the same amount of production time as their Persian counterparts at over 500 knots per square inch.

The preparation for getting a Chobi on the loom is over half of the time needed for the rug's production, where as it takes less than 10% of the total production time of a Persian to get it on the loom.

What takes so much time to get a Chobi on a loom?

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