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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I customize the colors?
Yes. Every design is available in custom colorways through our online customizer, or contact our studio for access to over 1,200 wool colors.
What sizes are available?
Every design can be made in any size. Standard sizes are available through the customizer. For exact dimensions or oversized pieces, contact our studio.
How long does shipping take?
Tufted rugs ship in 2 to 3 weeks. Knotted and woven rugs in 5 to 6 weeks. Every rug is handmade to order.
What is the return policy?
Rugs ordered in standard sizes and colorways as shown on our product pages are eligible for return within 14 days of delivery in original condition. Rugs ordered with any customization are final sale.
Do you offer free shipping?
Yes. All rugs ship free worldwide with duties and tariffs included.
Black and white wool area rugs — bold checks, zigzags, graphic geometrics, and organic forms in the highest-contrast palette available. Handwoven in premium New Zealand wool by master artisans in Bhadohi, India. Every design available in custom sizes and formats.
Monochrome Rugs: Black, White, and Maximum Contrast
Black and white is the most decisive palette available for a floor. No color mediation, no tonal blending — just maximum contrast and the design language that comes with it. A black and white rug doesn't suggest a room's palette; it sets it. Everything else in the space takes its direction from the floor, which gives the designer or buyer more control, not less, over how the room reads as a whole.
Jubi's monochrome collection is handwoven by master artisans in Bhadohi, India, in premium New Zealand wool. In black and white specifically, the quality of the wool is fully on display — there's no color complexity to mediate what the material does with light. The natural variation in pile, the depth of the black dye, the clean brightness of the white: all of it is visible in a way that a multicolor rug doesn't demand. A Jubi monochrome rug rewards that scrutiny rather than deflecting it.
Checkered and Grid: The Graphic End
The check is the defining pattern of the black and white palette — bold, graphic, and room-defining at any scale. The Black and White Big Checkered and Black and White Small Checkered offer the same two-tone checkerboard at two very different scales: the large check reads as an architectural statement from across the room, while the small check reads as texture at distance and resolves into pattern up close. Both are hand-tufted in premium New Zealand wool. The Black and White Checker Runner brings the same pattern into hallway and entryway formats.
Zigzag and Geometric: Line and Movement
Where the check is static, the zigzag introduces movement — the visual energy of a line that doesn't resolve into stillness. The Zig Zag Runner and Black and White Zig Zag Round take the same pattern logic into a linear format and a circular one respectively. Each reads differently in its shape: the runner extends the zigzag along a corridor's length; the round rug concentrates it into a radial form that suits dining tables and reading nooks.
Organic and Textural: Pattern Beyond the Grid
The Black and White Moroccan Shag takes the two-tone palette into a high-pile, hand-knotted format with Moroccan geometric patterning — the extended pile adds a tactile dimension that flat-pile black and white rugs don't achieve. The Black and White Organic Fusion brings the fluid, organic forms of the Organic Fusion design into the monochrome palette — the softness of the silhouette in direct tension with the sharpness of the color contrast.
Black and White Rugs in a Room
The practical design question with a black and white rug is not whether it will work — it will anchor almost any room — but how much of the room's energy it should carry. A large-scale bold check in a 9x12 is a decisive floor statement that defines the room's visual character. A small-scale check or a zigzag runner is more restrained, adding graphic energy without dominating. Black and white rugs pair particularly well with rooms that are otherwise neutral or monochromatic, where the pattern can do its work without competing with strong color elsewhere. They also work effectively as a grounding element in rooms with complex, layered color — the floor's clarity providing visual rest beneath the room's richness.
Every Jubi monochrome rug is available in custom sizes through the online customizer. For related directions: checkered rugs, black rugs, geometric rugs.