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Rugs & Textiles
Kashan Medallion Rug
Hand-knotted wool on a cotton foundation, madder and indigo ground. One of a kind — when it goes, it is gone.
R 48 500
On this floor since 1998
Rugs worth walking on, and a counter worth the drive.
A trading store on the R44 at Klapmuts. Hand-knotted rugs and homeware at the front, cured meat, cheese and bread at the back. Everything you can see here is on the floor today.
- Direct importers, not agents
- Rugs sent home on approval
- Countrywide delivery
Three parts of one shop
What you will find inside
The front room is a gallery. The back is a counter. Between them is everything that makes a house feel lived in.
On the floor today
A few things worth the drive out
Add anything to your list as you go. When you are ready, send the whole list to us on WhatsApp and we will put it aside.
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Rugs & Textiles
Karoo Mohair Throw
Woven in the Eastern Cape from a single clip. Warm without weight.
R 1 895
Homeware & Ceramics
Stoneware Serving Bowl
Thrown and glazed two valleys over. Oven, dishwasher and Sunday-lunch proof.
R 625
Cut to order
Pantry & Counter
Grass-Fed Beef Biltong
Silverside, coriander-heavy, cut to order at the counter. Moist or dry — say which.
R 125
28 yearsbuying direct, with no agent in the middle
Why the prices look like that
We buy it ourselves, so you are not paying three people
Every rug on this floor was chosen in person and shipped by us. Nothing sits in a distributor's warehouse first. That is the whole reason a piece that would carry a five-figure mark-up elsewhere sits here at what it sits at.
- Take it home first. Any rug over R5,000 goes out on approval for a week. Light in your house is not light in ours.
- Cleaning and repair. We wash and re-fringe what we sell, and plenty that we did not.
- Written provenance. Where it was knotted, roughly when, and what it is made of — on paper, with the sale.
1998The year the front room opened
200+Rugs on the floor at any time
11Producers within an hour of us
2–4 daysCountrywide courier, insured
The back of the shop
The counter changes every week
Cheese off the wheel, coppa sliced while you wait, bread out of the oven by half past seven. Nothing is cut in advance and nothing sits under a light all day.
Ring ahead on a Saturday. It is the one morning the queue reaches the rugs.
What people say
Regulars, mostly
They sent three runners home with us and did not once ask when we would decide. The one we kept is still the best thing in the passage.
I came for biltong and left with a jug. That is the shop in one sentence. The alpine cheese is worth the detour on its own.
They cleaned a rug my grandmother brought over in 1961 and did not try to sell me a replacement. That is why we keep going back.
Come and stand on a few.
Fourteen Bergstroom Road, off the R44 at Klapmuts. Parking at the door, and the kettle is usually on.