A studio that still works by hand.

ESAR began in a small Lagos studio with a single tufting gun and a borrowed frame. The first piece took six weeks. The second, three. By the tenth, we knew we wanted to teach this craft to other Nigerian makers — and we've been doing it ever since.

We make rugs to commission. We teach a four-week studio course. And we developed the ESAR Glue Mixture because the alternatives weren't good enough for what we believed the work deserved.

Everything we publish — every piece in the catalogue, every module in the course, every product in the shop — comes from the same studio. Same hands, same intention.