In 1970, one man in a small Punjab town went into the rug trade.
His name was Abdul Majeed Malik. Pakistan was then one of the great rug-exporting nations of the world, and he meant to be part of it — sourcing the wool, and washing, finishing and shipping the rugs himself. He had no showroom and no name. He had the work, and the belief that the work would speak. Fifty years later, it still does — and for the first time, it speaks directly to you.
It begins with Abdul Majeed Malik — sourcing wool, producing, washing and finishing rugs by hand, and exporting them to the world. In time, he moves the work to Lahore.
His son, Nadeem Malik, takes over. He builds the family’s finishing and distribution house in Lahore — the one still running today.
The family comes to the United States, settling near Washington — three decades of the trade carried across the ocean.
Abdul Majeed Malik passes. The work he started does not.
We open a U.S. warehouse and distribution house, and begin — quietly — to sell directly to the people who live with our rugs.
We make Houston home, and open the showroom where you can walk the whole collection in person.
Today, Nadeem’s four sons — Hashim, Hadi, Moosa and Isa — carry the trade forward, across the United States and overseas. Fifty years on, we are doing what the family never did before: bringing these rugs straight to you, with no one in between.
A hand-knotted rug is art — made entirely by hand. And it is work — tens of thousands of knots, tied one at a time by people who have done it their whole lives. Both words live in every rug we make. Both live in our name.
We make our own hand-knotted lines, and we curate a smaller selection of genuine vintage and antique pieces. We will always tell you exactly what a rug is and where it was made. Every one ships from our Houston showroom, nationwide — and you’re welcome to visit, or to walk the collection with us over a video call from anywhere.
— Hashim, Hadi, Moosa & Isa Malik
How a rug becomes one of one.
Inside the craft — from hand-spun wool and natural dyes to the final knot, the way the Malik family have made rugs for three generations.
Filmed at the Malik family workshop