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Journal Knock on Wood

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

 

EXPLORING EDEN — 09/01/25

 
 
 

Explore Eden and step into a world where nature meets the sublime. Weaving together the softness of cashmere, the luster of silk, and the strength of wool we invite you into the tactile landscapes of our Eden Rug Collection. Offered in four organic shapes—circle, cloud, leaf, and rectangle—each piece evokes a quiet mysticism rooted in history and grounded in nature.

 
 

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

 

‘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

 
 

Cloud Eden Rug

 
 

'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 is a meditation on origins—of materials, of myth, and of making. Crafted from cashmere, silk, and wool, each rug draws from natural fibers that have accompanied humanity for millennia.

 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 
 
 

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

 
 

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

 
 

In our Eden Rug Collection, we return to something essential: the harmony between human hands and the natural world, and the timeless stories spun in between. 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.

 
 
 
 

KNOCK ON WOOD — 05/13/25

 
 

In moments when fortune feels fragile, we knock on wood. Not simply to ward off misfortune, but to acknowledge the unseen forces that thread chance through our lives. It’s a quiet communion with the material world and the invisible forces it holds.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Superstition

I have painted a picture of a ghost
Upon my kite,
And hung it on a tree.
Later, when I loose the string
And let it fly,
The people will cower
And hide their heads,
For fear of the God Swimming in the clouds.

— Amy Lowell

 
 
 

The Edge of the Woods, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña French, 1872

 
 

Sentinels from another time, trees have long been woven into folklore, religion, worship and superstition. To carve, craft or manipulate a piece of wood is to enter into an ancient tradition and relationship, the roots of which are present to this day in our superstitions and our language.

There is an old belief that spirits dwell within trees, and that to knock upon wood is to wake them and ask for favor, protection, or grace. Whether you call it superstition or sacred instinct, this belief speaks to a deeper kinship: between the human body and the living world it touches.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wood is not just resource — it is remembrance. Each ring a record of rain, light, chance and wind. Makers have always known this. To shape wood is not to conquer it, but to collaborate with it — to listen, to learn the rhythm of the tree, and to trust in its memory.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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