RUGS TEXTILES OBJECTS
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Lavor Ombra crafts beauty from shadow and thread, specializing in bespoke, high-end woven rugs – artful objects that combine craft, design, and artistry. Each piece embodies a dialogue between hand, material, and memory, reinterpreting tradition through a contemporary perspective. Grounded in craftsmanship and creativity, Lavor Ombra’s work encourages touch, reflection, and a deeper bond with our surroundings.
Every rug textile, and object is created by merging traditional hand-made techniques with modern shapes and subtle cultural cues. Focusing on artistry, materiality, and emotional connection. Lavor Ombra enables the transformation of spaces into curated environments.
OUR WORLD
Lavor Ombra is all about the handmade with a real focus on materials. This is an artisan project even down to the spinning of the yarns for the carpets or the fabrics.
They have passed through so many hands, there are so many processes, each one requiring incredible skill and care, it is such a collaborative effort.
I want to make products – rugs and textiles, glassware, ceramics, metal or marble objects – that are tactile and textural. Carrying the sense of the hands that made them and through that embodying something beyond the tangible. The artisans have learned their skills through their culture, you can feel that.
RADICAL TRANSPARENCY™
“You feel the hands that have made them” – they are all a little imperfect. The real experts – master artisans – their work isn’t scalable, nor can you find their phone numbers online. To work with them requires building on-the-ground relationships. Lavor Ombra reveals the materials we use, highlighting their unique handmade qualities, the consistency of their purity, their origins, and, ultimately, their integrity. Lavor Ombra reveals the materials we use, highlighting their unique handmade qualities.
This transparency is closely tied to the respect for our collaborations, our creative integrity and karmic energy.
MISSION STATEMENT
Our Founder has developed a deep expertise and passion in construction, along with sourcing high-quality sustainable yarns and materials such as clay, metal, glass, and recycled plastic.
Lavor Ombra reveals the materials we use, highlighting their unique handmade qualities, the consistency of their purity, their origins, and, ultimately, their integrity.
This transparency is closely tied to the respect for our collaborations, our creative integrity and karmic energy. We aim to avoid tricks like inflated knot counts, low-quality yarns, and outright omissions. Instead, we focus on accessible and practical designs, choosing to utilize and transparently disclose our best material options.
To our way of thinking, the right equilibrium. We aim to empower our constituency to make well-informed decisions regarding the beauty they choose to invite into their homes and lives for the long term.
We hope to be neither fast nor easily disposable.
We prioritize supporting the conservation and sustainability of artisan cultures.
SUSTAINABILITY
We support the conservation and sustainability of artisan cultures.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
It is the seemingly simple yet deliberately conscious decisions that can cumulatively reduce our waste.
Our starting point is a simple yet deliberate effort to utilize natural yarns, at the very least undyed, thereby limiting the use of water and chemicals that pollute India’s rivers.
We are passionate about yarns, with our Founder participating in Indian Government trade fairs since 2009. Our commitment to learning motivates us to seek the best upcycled yarns, reducing waste and overconsumption.
GOOD WEAVE
We partner with Good Weave to fight against child labour and its related problems, including forced and bonded labour.
Our commitment to sustainable impact involves promoting the rights, needs, and voices of marginalized children and women in the communities we serve.
CARE & FAIR
We partner with Care & Fair, an organization established in 1994 to combat child labour and enhance the living conditions of rug manufacturers and their families in India and Pakistan.
Since our founder began visiting India in 2009, she has donated to local hospitals in Mirzapur, collaborating with sector-specific local businesses.
OKEO-TEX
Oeko Tex was founded in 1992 with the aim of using laboratory tests to ensure textile products are harmless to human health. Three decades later, Oeko Tex is made up of 17 independent textile and leather testing institutes, and offer an extensive product portfolio.
OEKO-TEX® consists of independent textile and leather testing institutes in Europe and Japan, with offices in more than 70 countries. These institutes work together to develop test methods and define limit values that are the basis of the various standards.