Custom Wool Carpet

AXMINSTER | BROADLOOM & TILES | HAND TUFTED

For 25 years, Stylex in Australia and our Lab in the USA are boutique wool carpet suppliers, managing design and production for luxury commercial, hospitality, senior living, and fine home projects.

Experimenting and coordinating color and design across our products to achieve the perfect blend of form, function and beauty for your project-on time and on budget.

Stylex has:

• One of the world’s largest color banks of ready-to-sample Axminster wool yarns. With over 1500 colors, we experiment deeper with ideas, adding complementary and contrasting colors into the mix to achieve the perfect color combinations that work for you.

• In-house design and sample creation for a fast turnaround - often only days for you to receive samples in hand.

Creating a custom wool Axminster carpet? If your new to this process, here’s what you can expect. And if your experienced , then here’s what you know already.
As the specifying designer, you will be responsible in making choices on pattern, color, texture, scale, layout, and a myriad of other project details. You will likely select a supplier’s pattern or provide them with a design concept or idea, and then choose colors from their color bank.

You will also likely have between 120 and 660 colors from which to choose for your pattern, depending upon the supplier. Some suppliers even have online design rooms where you can play with color using their designs. Once you’ve made your choices and request samples, some days or weeks thereafter, the samples may arrive.

Rarely though, will they meet your initial vision and expectations. Oops..! ‍ ‍Back to the drawing board. Take 2… ‍ ‍

More choices, more samples, again and again, until the supplier gets it right or until someone’s patience runs a bit thin. With deadlines near, you may have to run with what you have.

Although it’s a sound argument to start with carpet first in interior design, in the build process, availability can change, and your original carpet choices may become obsolete. Which is why, when it comes to custom wool Axminster carpeting, it’s best to defer carpet design decisions until all other design choices are settled. However, time rarely affords that luxury, as carpet design and sampling from most manufacturers takes quite some time, and often too long, when samples must be made, remade and remade again.

Artistically speaking, you floor is a negative space, just waiting to be filled in a way that hums with the essence of your vision. That’s where we come in. When we see your vision coming together with fabrics, color selections and floor layouts, then we can get to work to create a beautiful wool carpet that meets your project vision, and fills your negative space just as you had intended, without design or color compromises along the way.

Sometimes we trial dozens of combinations to strike a delicate and less abrasive color balance. It takes experience, a keen eye for color, and dedication to the result. Without the actual production of multiple trial samples, it’s quite impossible to understand accurately how colors are truly going to work together. A screen won’t cut it at any level beyond initial concepts.

Balancing color/s just right is a trial and error art that requires a bit more than a slim 600 color options to develop. At Stylex, we work with over 1500 in stock wool Axminster yarns to create your vision. We like to use Pantone Fashion Home + Interiors referencing when communicating color ideas with you, in the absence of fabric or paint colors. It helps us in knowing where your color head is at for the project.

We trial and sample different carpet ideas in scale, shade and tone to develop pattern and color for your project. Scale, and yarn ratio, affect color perception, while adjacent colors in a pattern affect how all other colors are perceived.

In fact, all colors in a pattern affect every other color within the pattern. Crazy stuff happens with colors when they’re woven into a sample for evaluation. If you’re a designer, you know this to be true. It’s usually not quite what you thought.

At Stylex, we use your project color scheme as our development guide. We won’t send you anything that doesn’t zing with your color scheme.