Designer Eija Rasinmäki has always been committed to ensuring that traditional Finnish patchwork rugs are not only used in vacation homes but can also be featured in elegant city apartments. Since 1970, she has been bringing this vision to life with her unique style, designing rugs for a wide variety of settings. In this wool rug, she combines light colors and warm earth tones into a lively yet understated checkered pattern that blends easily into many interior styles. As a result, it looks just as good in the living room or home office as it does in the hallway, children’s room, or bathroom. To ensure you can use this wool rug in a variety of ways, we offer it in a large size of 170 × 240 centimeters as well as a runner (90 × 200 cm).

“Orion” is hand-woven from pure virgin wool, resulting in irregularities and fraying in the weave that are inherent to this manufacturing process. The rug is relatively flat (5 mm pile height) and has a medium weight of 1,975 g/sqm, making it suitable for all living areas. The wool comes from New Zealand, where it is sourced mulesing-free. By the way, virgin wool is ideal for rugs: This natural material is durable, abrasion-resistant, lint-free, and antistatic. Thanks to their scaly surface, wool fibers are also dirt-repellent and have a sort of self-cleaning effect. Regular vacuuming or gentle shaking is usually sufficient. If stains do happen to appear on the rug, we recommend treating them with (a small amount of) carbonated water and gently dabbing them with a cloth. For a more thorough cleaning, please take the rug to a professional cleaner.
Virgin wool also offers several benefits for the indoor climate: It can absorb moisture from the air without feeling damp and release it again when the air is dry. Thanks to this moisture-regulating property, it acts like a natural air conditioner in living rooms and bedrooms.

Who hasn't heard of the colorful Finnish rag rug - but its inventor Eija Rasinmäki is less well known. Ever since she was given a loom by her mother, herself a weaver, at a young age, she has been enthusiastic about carpet weaving and later turned her passion into a profession. From the very beginning, back in 1970, she used recycled cotton or wove from remnants - long before the term upcycling was coined. Together with her husband, she founded Finarte in 1985 to offer affordable yet high-quality rugs produced in a resource-conserving way. While she initially designed all of her rugs herself, she now works with a range of different designers. The common thread in her designs is the combination of traditional Finnish weaving craftsmanship with modern Finnish design.

Since the 1990s, Finarte has had its carpets manufactured in India, a conscious decision for the production location: where the cotton is grown, processed and upcycled, it should also be woven. The company obtains selvedge remnants, production overhangs and offcuts from the textile industry, recycles them and then weaves them into carpets. This saves around 11,000 liters of water per kilogram of recycled cotton - the amount that would be needed to produce one kilogram of fresh cotton. In upcycling, a wide variety of cotton scraps, mostly from the clothing industry, are shredded into fibers and spun into new yarn. In addition to recycled and upcycled cotton, Finarte uses other natural materials such as virgin wool, jute and leather scraps, and since 2018 has also been producing carpets from PET material obtained from recycled plastic bottles.

Staining of light-coloured clothing, furniture and other objects is possible.

Certain manufacturing steps are carried out by hand. Slight dimensional and color deviations may therefore occur.