Journal Exploring Eden

Explore “The Edit”, a seasonal collection of images and musings that invites you to see Egg Collective through a new lens.

 

EXPLORING EDEN — Fall 2025

 
 

As Summer transitions into Fall, we invite you to explore the tactile landscape of our Eden Rug Collection with us. Through Eden we return to something essential: the harmony between human hands, the natural world, and the timeless stories spun in between. 


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Botanical Study of Indian Mulberry (Morinda citrifolia), late 18th century

 

Detail of Eden Rug in Celery Cashmere with Silver & Gold Eyes

‘The Gathering of Mulberry Leaves and the Feeding of the Silkworms’, Plate 5 from "The Introduction of the Silkworm" [Vermis Sericus], Karel van Mallery Netherlandish, ca. 1595

 
 

“Somewhere on a mulberry leaf a silkworm forms its cocoon… her essence becomes the finest, softest qualities of silk.” — Ell Benjamin

 
 

Cashmere Goats

 

'The silkworm of India' - Depiction of the different stages of the silkworm by Alfred Louis Sargent (1828-1855) from The Illustrated London News

 
 

The Eden Rug Collection began as an inward inquiry. It emerged during a time when we were meditating on our own origins and marked our first passage into textiles, an ancient craft deeply entwined with the natural world. Exploring Eden created a kind of portal through which we could research flora, fauna, and the enduring symbols that have offered meaning and protection across time.

In this way, the Eden Rug Collection is both personal and archetypal—rooted in our own studio history and reaching back into the shared lineage of craft.

 
 

Detail of Eden Rug in Chocolate Cashmere with Rose & Gold Silk Eyes

Detail of Eden Rug in Chocolate Cashmere with Rose & Gold Silk Eyes

 

Title Plate from "The Introduction of the Silkworm" [Vermis Sericus], Karel van Mallery Netherlandish

 

Eden Rug in Gold Silk with Rose & Chocolate Eyes

 

Eden Leaf Rug in Gold Silk with Rose & Chocolate Eyes with Robins Arm Chair and Anya Eye Side Table

 

Length of Silk Fabric, ca. 1770, Unknown artist/maker

 
 

Silk, once carried along ancient trade routes and prized for its luminous strength, has long symbolized refinement and mystery. Its journey begins in the hush of a delicately spun silkworm cocoon, before being transformed by human hands into something radiant. Wool and cashmere, by contrast, speak to a history of earthbound tending—of shepherding, stewardship, and the deep rhythms of pastoral life. Together, these fibers are more than materials; they are inheritances, shaped by centuries of labor, care, and tradition.

 
 

Raw Silk

 
 

Feeding the silkworms, ca. 1873–1883, Shinichi Suzuki (Japanese, 1835 - 1919)

Dusty Trail, Kaye Shimojima (Japanese, 1888 - after 1945), ca. 1921

 
 

Woven from cashmere, silk, and wool, our Eden Rug Collection is a gesture toward the sacred shapes found in nature, and the stories embedded within them. Whether adorned with the eye motif or left in contemplative simplicity, each rug is created by hand in an age old tradition that we see as a kind of soft monument to storied materials intimately tied to the land.

 
 

Eden Leaf Rug in Gold Silk with Rose & Chocolate Eyes with Oscar Dining Table and Court Dining Chair

 
 
 

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