Our craft
A quieter way to make a mat.
Sabara began in a small workshop with one pit loom and three weavers. Today there are nine of us. Everything we make is woven by hand, in natural fibres, in small enough batches that we still notice each piece.
From fibre to floor
Every mat passes through five quiet steps. None of them is rushed. Most of them happen within a few kilometres of each other, in workshops we know by name.
- 01SourcingJute, cotton and coir from farms we visit each season.
- 02DyeingSmall batches of plant-based dyes — indigo, madder, marigold, eucalyptus.
- 03WarpingThreads measured and stretched onto a wooden pit loom by hand.
- 04WeavingTwo to four days of slow weft work, one weaver per piece.
- 05FinishingWashed, fringed, sun-dried, folded, sent.