“Upcycling” is the practice of re-using unwanted items intended for the trash heap for new or different purposes. It’s not just about giving worn out, old sweaters a new life as mittens, or turning ...

Re Rag Rug is an experimental design and crafts project initiated in August 2012 by designers Katarina Brieditis and Katarina Evans in Stockholm, Sweden. Their goal is to develop one unique rag rug ...

Re Rag Rug started as an experimental design project that explores the social and ecological sustainability of the rug. Using material that is waste and excess from the textile industry and old ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The rag rag is unique for being ubiquitous. From the High Atlas Mountains to the Scandinavian archipelagos, ...

What's your pandemic project? Have you used your time at home during the pandemic to tackle a project you've always wanted to do, but didn't have the time? Build bookshelves? Create a chicken coop?

Woven rag rugs, as their name implies, carry humble origins. But what if the materials that marry together into such recognisably hand-crafted carpets came from a more elevated source? That’s the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bodgy, broddy, clippy, clooty, hooky, proggy, proddy, peggy, stobby, tabby — in the north of England, these are ...