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The fight against the coronavirus pandemic isn’t over yet. In many rug and carpet producing countries, including India and Nepal, COVID-19 infections are surging again. The latest wave of the pandemic is hitting weavers in South Asia particularly hard. Your ongoing support will help weavers and their families through

On this year’s Earth Day we celebrate a clean water initiative started by Label STEP ten years ago in Nepal. Together with environmental engineers and leading dyeing factories waste water treatment plants for Kathmandu’s carpet and pashmina industries were developed. The discharge of industrial waste water into the farmlands

COVER Connect—the ultimate online rug resource for design professionals hosted by our media partner COVER magazine—is happening this week, 12-15 January 2021. Talks – Inspiring Panel Discussions COVER has invited some of the most successful and creative minds in the industry to discuss inspiring projects and exemplary practices. The

Label STEP Licensed Partner Jan Kath New York launches a project bringing together children from the US and Nepal. The carpets created in this project bear witness to the children’s creativity and are hand knotted under certified fair trade conditions in Kathmandu, Nepal. The World SChool Crossroads & Avenues

Do you ever wonder whose expert hands made your beautiful rug? Label STEP Director Reto Aschwanden shares a day in the life of weaver Sunita Rai with the readers of COVER Magazine.

Label STEP released a music video that celebrates Nepali carpet weaving as a sustainable alternative to migrant labour.