Our Guide To Rugs
If you're looking for stunning floor rugs, our broad range of contemporary, traditional, shaggy, tufted, textured, flat weave and indoor/outdoor designs make it easy for you to add the perfect focal point, creating truly unique spaces. Today's homes are often large open-plan spaces that link together kitchens, dining and living rooms. They can seem overwhelming or barren unless you break the areas and ground furniture pieces through the use of rugs. The resurgence of hard flooring has also created a need to include rugs as a staple part of your furnishings for added comfort and warmth.
Rug Placement Guide
Today's homes are often large open plan spaces that link together kitchens, dining and living rooms. They can seem overwhelming or barren unless you break the areas and ground furniture pieces through the use of rugs! The resurgence of hard flooring has also created a need to include rugs as a staple part of your furnishings for added comfort and warmth. Our rugs come in lots of different shapes and sizes! To help you determine the right shape and size for your room, we've put together a handy placement and sizing guide.
Small Space
Define a small space such as a reading nook or quiet corner with a smaller size rug.
Big Space
For large rooms with furniture floating in the centre, a floor rug should be big enough so that the furniture fits completely on top without feeling cramped.
Cover Halfway
When furniture is against a wall, aim to have the front legs of all furniture on the rug.
Center It
Smaller rugs can be used just under the coffee table to define specific seating areas.
Rectangular Table
Your table and chairs should all rest on the rug. Always make sure there is room extending beyond all sides of the table so chairs stay on the rug when pushed back.
Circular or Square Table
Same rules apply to these shapes. Remember to make sure there is room extending beyond all sides of the table so chairs stay on the rug when pushed back.
Frame The Bed
Your rug should extend around the bed for a cosy look.
Smaller Rug
Try putting a rug part way under the bed for a unique look.
Design, fibres & construction
Baya pride themselves on their beautiful craftsmanship of cushions, throws, floor rugs and natural hides. Many of their products are handmade by artisans spinning and dying yarns, adding embroidered touches, printing, weaving and finishing by hand. As these products are handmade, there may be variations in colour, pattern, texture, and size from the descriptions and images on the website, or variations between production runs and dye batches. There may be slight imperfections such as marks or discolouration on natural furs and hides, this is normal. Avoid placing dyed products on light coloured furniture and surfaces as dye colour may transfer. The dyed colours of these hand dyed products are susceptible to fading in high UV areas. Please keep out of direct sunlight to avoid discolouration. These complex and nuanced handmade processes create beautiful and unique products for our collections. We hope you enjoy the individuality of these luxury pieces.
Minor variations may be evident, which is due to the handsome nature of production and may include weave thickness or pattern, or differences in the yarn weight. An effect known as 'phasing' can occur, where designs include the random use of contrasting colours when at times, these colours can coincide in production. Similarly, in loop pile floor rugs, shading effects of colour patterning can appear as panelling down the length of the floor rug. Both phasing and panelling are an accepted part of the design and in no way affect the floor rugs performance.
Many of our products are made from natural fibres such as wool and jute. We aim for our products and processes to leave as little impact on the earth as possible. The materials for our products are carefully sourced and we use natural and recycled fibres wherever possible. Our natural furs and hides are always ethically sourced from trusted suppliers.
Suitability
When looking to purchase a new rug it's important to assess if the rug is suitable for the space, for example a delicate handmade rugs may not be well suited to a busy family area.
Size
Be aware that handmade rugs can vary in size +/-3% from the size ordered. This is an industry-accepted manufacturing variation.
Colour
It is normal for floor rugs to show minor colour variation from selling samples and catalogue images, or minor variations between production runs and dye batches. Many of our floor rugs are also made from natural, un-dyed yarns which are blended together to create the desired colour. Colour appearance can vary depending on the type of light under which a sample is viewed and the light sources where the floor rug is located. Viewing of samples in the home and under as many different light sources as possible prior to decision making is recommended. You can request rug samples on loan from your local Flooring Xtra store. Every effort is made to ensure there is minimal colour variation and to ensure this is within recognised textile industry standards, however some variation can be expected.
Colour Transfer
It is recommended for dark or brightly coloured dyed rugs that a floor rug backing mat on lightly coloured floors is used to avoid any possible colour migration.
Pile Reversal & Shading
Due to the changes in pile and weave direction shading or shift lines may occur and are a natural characteristic for carpets and floor rugs. From certain angles particular areas may appear lighter or darker than others. This is caused by piles reflecting the light differently in the affected areas. This is a feature characteristic or cut and loop pile floor rugs, especially solid colours.
Caring for your rug
All of our rug products are labelled with details on the composition of fibres, and care and cleaning instructions. We've put together a general guide below to help you care, clean and maintain your new rug. Please read these instructions carefully to best care for your new floor rug.
Working with GoodWeave
Baya is proud to be licensed by GoodWeave, an organisation that is working to end child labour and uphold healthy working conditions for weavers in the floor rug and textile industry.
Who are GoodWeave?
GoodWeave is a non-profit organisation founded in 1994 by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi. It is a leading global institution with a mission to end child labour in global supply chains through an authentic, market-based, and holistic system.
Baya's certified floor rugs are produced by licensed exporters who are happy to undergo unannounced inspections of their premises by GoodWeave staff. It also means that a percentage of the cost of each floor rug is donated by Furtex for GoodWeave's social programs in India, Nepal or Afghanistan. We believe that understanding the supply chain and knowing that your purchase makes a tangible difference for weaving communities, makes our floor rugs all the more beautiful and enjoyable to take home.
Why is this work so important?
More than 152 million children are forced into labour. Some children trafficked to loom sheds far from home – often under threat of violence – to work off a family debt that can never be repaid on meagre weaving wages.
Child laborers often forfeit the chance to ever begin school, giving them the highest illiteracy rates in the world. Victims are 5-14 years of age, and while corporate social auditing improves working conditions at “first tier” factories, the worst exploitation takes place outside of the factory where many layers of subcontracting turn child labour into an invisible crime in hidden workplaces.
Our partnership with GoodWeave is an important part of our commitment within the textile industry and how it moves into the future. We want to ensure our Baya floor rugs come from a transparent and ethical supply chain, that is free of child labour and supports our workers’ rights.
