The store
The shop floor of a weaving house.
RS Living is where Raheem & Son sells to the person who will actually live with the rug. Same looms, same weavers, same wool as the contract and export sides of the business. One rug at a time instead of two hundred.
Since 1927
Raheem & Son has been weaving at Bhadohi, in Uttar Pradesh, since 1927. For most of that time the work went where handmade rugs have always gone: to importers, to wholesalers, to hotel and hospitality projects, and to the shops that sold them on.
That is still most of what the company does, and it is why there are three worlds on this site rather than one. Raheem & Son is the house and the archive. RS Contract is the specification and volume side. RS Living is the store.
What is different about buying here
There is no middle layer
The rug is made and sold by the same people. Nothing is bought in, rebranded or drop-shipped from a third party. When you ask what wool it is, the answer comes from the person who bought the wool.
One list price
The store price is the price. It is not a negotiating position and it is not quietly higher than what the same piece would be quoted at elsewhere on this site. Volume discounts exist and they come off that same list price by fixed steps.
Nothing is in stock
Every piece is woven after you order it, in your size. There is no warehouse, which is the reason every piece is made to order and the reason a size is a decision rather than a list.
You can have what the trade has
Yarn samples, real specifications, a straight answer about how something will wear. None of that is reserved for the buyer ordering two hundred pieces.
On being made by hand
Everything here is made by people. Wool is dyed in batches by eye, a loom is set by hand, a weaver spends weeks on a single rug, and a finisher shears the surface level with hand shears.
The result is that no two pieces are identical and none matches its photograph to the pixel. Colour shifts slightly between dye batches. Dimensions land within about one to two per cent. A pattern edge is drawn by a hand, not by a printer.
We treat that as the point rather than as something to apologise for. A machine can make a thousand rugs that match to the millimetre, and that is a genuine achievement and a different object. What you get here is the record of someone having made it.
What we can and cannot claim
Raheem & Son is a member of the Carpet Export Promotion Council, the body constituted under India's Ministry of Textiles. That is the certification the house holds, and we will not imply others it does not.
Where a project or a buyer needs a specific standard or test certificate, it can be arranged against an order rather than presented as something already in hand. Ask, and you will get a straight answer about what exists today and what would have to be obtained.