Cappelen Dimyr
Cappelen Dimyr is a family owned Scandinavian textile atelier making rugs, wall tapestries and textile objects in natural materials. The pieces are designed in Scandinavia and handmade by skilled artisans using traditional techniques, in a style the atelier describes as eclectic minimalism: quiet, textured, a little unconventional, and made to be lived with. Each design carries a number rather than a name, and most are made to order in a range of sizes.
Emerson Bailey has worked with Cappelen Dimyr since 2021, as one of the first galleries in the United States to carry the collection. We keep rugs in the Bozeman gallery to see and walk on, show the collection alongside our antiques, and have exhibited the rugs with Cappelen Dimyr in Copenhagen. Every piece on this site is priced with import duty included, and we manage the order and delivery for private clients, designers and architects across the country.
The atelier
Texture first. Cappelen Dimyr's rugs are built around contrast: long pile against short, wool against jute, a raised figure floating on a flat ground. The best known designs are shaggy, hand knotted wool rugs with irregular shapes and fringed edges, pieces that read as much as objects as floor coverings. Alongside them sit flat woven jute rugs, the Colonnade series of runners, and wall tapestries in wool and linen.
Made by hand in India. The rugs are designed in Scandinavia and handmade in Bhadohi, India, the centre of the country's hand knotting tradition, by artisans the atelier has worked with for years. Natural materials throughout: undyed and dyed wool, jute and linen. Because every piece is made by hand, sizes can vary by a few percent and no two are quite the same.
Made to order. Each design is offered in a set of standard sizes and can also be made in custom dimensions. Cappelen Dimyr keeps some sizes in stock in Europe; the rest are made when ordered.
Emerson Bailey and Cappelen Dimyr
We placed our first order with Cappelen Dimyr in the summer of 2021, as one of the first galleries in the United States to carry the collection. We liked the rugs for the same reason we like a good antique: they are made by hand, in honest materials, and they get better with use. They also sit easily with old things. A shaggy no.08 under a Swedish armchair, or a Colonnade runner down a hall of Gustavian furniture, is the kind of pairing the gallery is built on.
Since then the collaboration has run in both directions. Cappelen Dimyr's own campaign photographs are styled with antiques from our gallery, and we have shown the rugs twice in Copenhagen during 3daysofdesign: in our 2024 exhibition CENTURIES, and in RESIDENCE in 2025, where a Cappelen Dimyr rug anchored the bedroom beneath a Hästens bed and a seventeenth century tapestry.
Cappelen Dimyr now sells online in the United States and through other retailers. Buying through Emerson Bailey adds what a website cannot: rugs to see and walk on in Bozeman, a gallery that has lived with these pieces for years and can tell you which design suits a room, and a price that already includes import duty, with the order, the import and the delivery handled by us.
Cappelen Dimyr with Emerson Bailey Gallery pieces
no.08
The no.08 rug in a panelled room, with a figure on a pedestal and a turned wood armchair from the gallery.
Emerson Bailey Gallery antiques shown. Photo: Cappelen Dimyr
no.08
The no.08 rug on a stone floor, with a black pedestal and urn, a slipper chair and a clam shell from the gallery.
Emerson Bailey Gallery antiques shown. Photo: Cappelen Dimyr
no.09
The no.09 rug under a dark round table, with X stools, brass globe floor lamps and a white vase from the gallery.
Emerson Bailey Gallery antiques shown. Photo: Cappelen Dimyr
no.11
The no.11 rug under a trestle table with a dark armchair from the gallery, in a tall window room.
Emerson Bailey Gallery antiques shown. Photo: Cappelen Dimyr
Shop the collection
Colonnade runners
The Colonnade series: thirteen runners for halls, stairs and galleries, in the same hand knotted and hand woven constructions as the rugs.
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Table linen
The Floral and Frame tablecloths and napkins. We hold samples of each colourway in the gallery; ask us for a quote.
Browse EnquireIn our projects
Belgian Country Estate
A Cappelen Dimyr rug in the study, under a marble fireplace. Old Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. See the project.
Emerson Bailey project. Photo: William Jess Laird
Contemporary Ski Chalet, Beaver Creek
A Cappelen Dimyr rug in the media room of a ski in, ski out lodge in Beaver Creek, Colorado. See the project.
Emerson Bailey project
The Cannery, Bozeman
A Cappelen Dimyr rug in the Bozeman gallery, with a leather sling chair and a painted chest. See the gallery.
Emerson Bailey gallery
Firehouse to Gallery, Denver
A Cappelen Dimyr rug in the Denver gallery, in a century old former firehouse. See the gallery.
Emerson Bailey gallery
Seen at 3daysofdesign
CENTURIES, 2024
Scandinavian design from the eighteenth century to today, in a Copenhagen apartment. A Cappelen Dimyr rug under a Swedish cabinet and a stone topped table. Read more.
Photo: Emerson Bailey
RESIDENCE, 2025
Five rooms of a historic apartment near Rosenborg Castle Gardens, furnished across four centuries. A Cappelen Dimyr rug in the living room and another beneath the Hästens bed. Read more.
Photo: Emerson Bailey
How ordering works
Rugs, runners and tapestries are priced on the site and can be bought online. The price includes import duty. Some sizes are in stock in Europe and ship within two to three weeks; the others are made to order and take six to eight weeks. We confirm the lead time when we receive your order. Rugs ship directly from Cappelen Dimyr to you, and delivery to your address is quoted and arranged after purchase, so there is no shipping charge at checkout.
For a custom size or colour, a project with several pieces, or table linen, send us the design, the dimensions and the delivery address and we will quote it in writing. Trade clients: see our designer trade program.
See it in Bozeman
We keep Cappelen Dimyr rugs in the gallery at 109 E. Oak St., Suite 1C, Bozeman, Montana, where you can see the pile, the colour and the edge in daylight and against antiques, along with samples of the table linen. Designers and architects are welcome to bring clients.
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