Designer Collaborations

Bold designs, diverse voices, colour trends, and the stories behind our products and projects.

Design Inspiration Layered Collection

Exploring memory, identity and the fragments of everyday life, we share the inspiration and images behind the collection
In conversation with Claire McPoland, the Creative Director of Totzke Rugs.

In Conversation with Claire McPoland

Claire is our Creative Director. Together, we trace the ideas and development behind our collections, from a single inspiration photograph through to product launch.

Layered by Emma Lynne Archer

Layered is hand knotted by the most experienced artisans, our most intricate patterns to date, with a depth of colour and texture that is unique to this method of weaving.

Summer 2026 Colour Story, Totzke Rugs

Colour Stories: Playing with Colour and Craft

A collaboration with our friends at Slancha exploring new colour trends and unexpected combinations.

Rugs for commercial and hospitality use by Totzke Rugs

Non-Linear by
Emma Lynne Archer

Not your typical linear patterns, Non-Linear is based on the exploration of breaking and setting boundaries.

Announcing our partnership with The Ancillary Project, featuring Totzke Rugs in their new Manhattan showroom

Totzke x Ancillary Project: Introducing Kedra and Perrin

As we continue to evolve and grow our business in New York, we are thrilled to launch our partnership with The Ancillary Project and introduce Kedra and Perrin.

Design inspiration for our Pathways Collection, a flatweave collection by Totzke Rugs

Design Inspiration Pathways Collection

Drawing inspiration from the textures and colourways found in urban environments, we share the images behind the designs.

Terra Rug in wool, from the Pathways Collection by Totzke Rugs

Our collection creates texture underfoot by interweaving thicker yarns with a feature overstitch detail.

Pathways Collection

Discover our designer collaboration with Nasim Koerting. Azadi Collection — textured flatweave rugs for hotels, offices and large interiors. Custom-made in wool and handmade by Totzke Rugs

Azadi Collection

The Azadi Collection is the second rug collaboration between Totzke and acclaimed Design Director Nasim Köerting, who oversees design for the Australian-based hospitality firm Merivale.

Jantar Rug, in wool and jute, long listed by the Dezeen Awards, by Totzke Rugs

The Origin collection is inspired by our most recent visit to India, a trip that felt a world away from our everyday lives.

Origin Collection

Origins Collection inspiration imagery by Totzke Rugs

Design Inspiration
Origin Collection

Inspired by the textures and imprints found amongst some of India’s most fascinating architectural monuments, our patterns seek to express the beauty of time.

Yahvi Duggal, weaver and artist in collaboration with Totzke Rugs

Yahvi is a textile artist who creates unique woven artworks inspired by the zero-waste traditions she grew up with in India.

In Conversation with Yahvi Duggal

Alison O'Reily, In Conversation, a designer collaboration by Totzke Rugs

In Conversation with the artist Alison P. O’Reilly

How can we as designers build awareness around social responsibility and how inherent it is to responsible specification?

Tres Rug, installed in a commercial setting at The Office Group Borough Yards, by Totzke Rugs

Hand Sketched 
by Nasim Köerting

Taken from contemporary architecture and fashion,  Hand Sketched is based on a series of hand drawings translated to the carpet loom. 

Abstract Rug, custom colored, in wool, in a flatweave with a durable commercial rug installation by Totzke Rugs

In Conversation with Abigail Le Marchand

As her latest project opens in London, Design Director Abigail explains how we worked together to streamline the bespoke design process.

Rebecca Wu-Norman, designer of the Mala Rug, by Totzke Rugs

Mala Rug by
Rebecca Wu-Norman

Designed by the New York based artist, designer and advocate, we celebrate our partnership with Project Mala who provide education in the carpet belt of India.

A patterned fabric with black frogs holding orange sticks, surrounded by wavy and geometric designs in shades of green, brown, and coral.

Abstracted natural forms in combination with reinterpreted motifs and patterns from sub-Saharan Africa.

Life Force by Wuno Creative

Taking cues from trends in materiality providing inspiration for texture and tonality to layer into your space. 

Abstract rug and Jantar rug, an inspiration image for a commercial project, by Totzke Rugs

Colour Stories- Spring 2025

Colour Stories, Mas, designs and colors to match into your commercial rug project, by Totzke Rugs

Taking cues from trends in materiality providing inspiration for texture and tonality to layer into your space. 

Colour Stories- Mas

Moss Rug, designed by Fleur Peck - Out of the Blue Artist, by Totzke Rugs

Under the Trees by “Out of the Blue” Artist

Abstract works, painted in north London by artist and designer Fleur Peck translated into art for your floor.

Claudia Carillo Cruz, In Conversation, a designer collaboration by Totzke Rugs

In Conversation with Claudia Carrillo Cruz

Learn how to approach bespoke rugs from design, colour and sizing. Be inspired to use rugs in unconventional ways.

  • Garden with assorted flowering plants including pink and red flowers, green bushes, and a section of a table covered with a beige cloth.

    Sustainability

    Our rugs are ethically created and our sustainability mission focuses on how the journey of a rug impacts both people and the environment.

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  • A dark textured surface with a dried branch with seed pods and an empty small ceramic bowl.

    Running Line

    Collections of tufted and woven rugs, simplified and organised to help you find the right design for your space.

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  • Three artisans sitting on a long wooden bench, weaving a large rug, with balls of yarn hanging above them.

    Bespoke Rugs

    We specialise in bespoke work and are here to make it non-intimidating and simple.

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