High Point, and What Actually Resonated
High Point wasn’t just a trade show for us. It clarified something.
We spend a lot of time thinking about how to communicate what we do, how to articulate the value of something made slowly, by hand, across cultures. At High Point, we didn’t have to explain as much. Designers understood it almost immediately, especially when they could see it.
That’s the difference. Without context, a textile is easy to reduce to color and pattern. With context, real context, not marketing language, it becomes a material decision. Something a designer can justify, specify, and stand behind with a client.
Bringing the Work Into the Room
Flory changed how long people stayed.
She traveled from Guatemala to be there, and that mattered. Not as a talking point, but in the way it grounded the work. She wasn’t representing the process, she was the process.
At most booths, designers scan. They look, register, move on. Here, they stopped, and not in a passing way. They stood long enough to watch the rhythm of it. To see how the loom is anchored to the body, how each pass builds the structure, how slowly the process takes shape.
That kind of time is unusual on a market floor.
You could see the moment it clicked for designers, when our collection stopped being read as patterns and colors and started being understood as construction.
The questions we received followed that shift.
“How is this made?”
“How long does this take?”
“Can this be done in a different scale or color?”
Those are specification questions, where material starts being written into projects.
No one was asking if it was beautiful. That part was already resolved. They were trying to understand how to work with it, how to place it, how to explain it to a client without it feeling subjective.
The Pieces That Stopped People in Their Tracks
Two pieces drew consistent crowds throughout the show, and both tell a story worth sharing.
The Pajaro Lumbar Pillow captivated nearly everyone who encountered it, and once we explained its journey, they understood why. The fabric is handwoven by Gudi in San Antonio Palopó on the shores of Lake Atitlán. It is then transported across the lake by boat to Santiago Atitlán, where it is hand embroidered by the extraordinary weavers at Cojolya. Two communities, one lake, one piece. We keep those processes separate and bring them together deliberately, rather than simplifying them into something easier to produce.
And for a designer, that level of structure and coordination gives you something with real origin to stand behind when you specify it.
The Lava Throw Pillow, newly launched in a beautiful new colorway, was equally beloved. It is genuinely difficult for us to choose favorites within our own collection, but the Lava is firmly in our top five. Seeing designers respond to it with the same enthusiasm we feel was a quiet joy. This pillow showcases a traditional design from Chichicastenango and requires 57 hours for each pillow to be made. The complex design lives in the weaver’s shared generational memory, and she places each color intentionally by hand, resulting in a stunning piece.
Introducing Our Custom Color Program
High Point was also the moment we officially launched something we have been developing with great care: our Custom Color Program for fabrics by the yard.
This program is an invitation to make something entirely your own. A handwoven fabric designed around your vision, your palette, your space, and your client.
Choose from 52 carefully curated colors, each selected for its ability to live beautifully in a home, to complement natural light, age gracefully, and sit in quiet harmony with the materials around it. Whether you are drawn to warm neutrals, earthy terracottas, or something more unexpected, the range is broad enough to surprise and precise enough to satisfy.
Your chosen color is then woven into the fabric by hand in Guatemala, on a traditional loom, exactly as every piece in our collection is made. The result is not simply a customized textile. It is something made entirely for you, carrying within it the same craft, intention, and cultural depth as everything we produce.
Many of our fabric by the yard offerings are available through the custom program. If you would like a ring set of the seven available fabrics to feel them in your own space, you can order one here. If you are ready to begin or simply have questions, we would love to hear from you. Please email us at sales@rbcurated.com.
Want to See our Collection?
We are thrilled to announce we will be participating in more pop up shows during the fall of 2026. Stay tuned for announcements!
