Four generations of handwoven wool, now on your floor.
From a wool trading post in Rajasthan to a studio in Langley, British Columbia - this is the story of the family, the mill, and the two hundred master weavers behind every rug we make.
From Panipat, India to your home.
Rich Class Decor is the fourth generation of a family textile business that began with a single wool trader in Rajasthan in the 1960s. Four generations later, we're weaving by hand, milling our own yarn, and shipping directly to customers in Canada and the United States.
Sri Chand Mittal - the wool trader who started it all.
Sumedha Mittal - the only standing woman in the Indian wool trade.
Gagan & Sobi - a UK student room sparks an idea.
Rich Class Decor in Langley, BC - the full cycle.
It started with a wool trader in Rajasthan.
Our grandfather, Late Sri Chand Mittal, laid the foundation. He was a wool trader based in Bikaner and Beawar, Rajasthan - grading, sourcing, and trading raw wool at a time when that work demanded deep expertise and deep community trust. He built Ram Handloom Industries from nothing, with his hands and his word.
Our father inherited that foundation and expanded it, taking the blanket and wool processing business further, building his own reputation as a manufacturer and exporter. Then, in the late 1980s, an overseas buyer from Texas came knocking and asked if he could make saddle blankets. That single conversation opened the door to international export. Shakun Exports was born - and so was our family's global reach.
We were watching all of this grow up.
The woman who changed everything.
Our mother, Mrs. Sumedha Mittal, stepped in to support our father - and went on to build something no one had seen before. She became a global wool sourcing agent, starting with raw sheep wool from Pakistan and growing her network to span South Africa, Australia, and beyond. She named her business Shakun Overseas and built it entirely on knowledge, relationships, and trust.
She understands wool at a molecular level - fibre length, vegetable matter content, the exact difference between wool that makes a rug last ten years and wool that lasts a lifetime. Over forty years, she became one of the most respected voices in the global wool trade.
In 2026, Mrs. Sumedha Mittal is the only standing woman in the Indian wool trade. Not one of few. The only one. She achieved this at a time when society told her she could not - in the 1980s, a woman in international trade faced active resistance and criticism. She pressed forward anyway. That resilience is woven into every rug we make.
A UK student room. A wall hanging. An idea.
In 2003, brothers Gagan and Sobi were studying in the UK. Our mother had sent handmade wall hangings from India to decorate their room. Their friends wanted to buy them. That was the seed.
Sobi returned to India and spent years travelling internationally with his mother, sourcing the world's finest wools and identifying market gaps. In 2008, they opened a wool warehouse in Bikaner. In 2009, they built a yarn manufacturing mill in Panipat - once again named Ram Handloom Industries, honouring the foundation our grandfather laid.
Not outsourced yarn. Not blended-down affordable yarn. Premium, low-VM, long-fibre wool - the kind that separates a 30-year rug from a 3-year one. In 2016, Rich Class Decor officially launched.
From Panipat to Langley, British Columbia.
In 2023, Sobi moved to Langley, British Columbia, to complete the full four-generation cycle by meeting customers directly for the first time. Gagan and Sobi are now the face of Rich Class Decor in North America - carrying a four-generation textile legacy into Canadian and American homes.
Behind them: a yarn mill, a warehouse, a women's weaving programme, and a mother who built the whole operation on knowledge, relationships, and trust. In front of them: you.
In 2026, Mrs. Sumedha Mittal is the only standing woman in the Indian wool trade. Not one of few. The only one.
200 master weavers. One big heart.
Today Rich Class Decor works with over two hundred master weavers across India, with the infrastructure to scale to 500+ on demand. These are not anonymous factory workers. We know their names. We know their families - the direct result of how our mother built this operation from day one.
A programme built for women.
Our mother built a programme specifically for widows and single mothers in weaving communities, because she knows what it means to face every barrier as a woman who needs to work. Every woman in this programme is a skilled artisan - not a cheap labour source.
Same-day pay.
Our weavers are paid the day they complete their work. Not at month's end like industry standard. That day. In the Indian textile industry this is almost unheard of - and it changes lives at a very real, immediate level.
Mobile looms.
If a weaver cannot come to the facility - because of children, age, or distance - we bring the loom to her home. Sized to her space, typically 2x3 or 3x5 feet with a max width of 8ft. The craft comes to the artisan, not the other way around.
Our own yarn mill.
Unlike most rug brands, we manufacture our own yarn - controlling quality from raw fibre to finished product. Premium, low-VM, long-fibre wool. No blending down. No compromise. This is what makes our rugs last a lifetime, not a few years.
A dying art, kept alive.
Traditional hand-weaving is aging out. The master weavers from our grandfather's generation are getting older, and fewer young people are learning. Our programme is also a preservation effort - bringing new artisans into a tradition that deserves to survive.
Gagan & Sobi Mittal.
Brothers carrying a four-generation textile legacy into North American homes. Sobi is based in Langley, BC - the bridge between decades of Indian craft expertise and the Canadian and US customers who now bring our rugs home.
Three principles, held steady for four generations.
Ethical business.
Fair wages, honest relationships, full transparency. We never compromise on how we treat the people who make our products - because our mother never would, and we grew up inside the standard she set.
Real sustainability.
Natural wool, traditional methods, our own yarn mill. We control everything from raw fibre to finished rug - no synthetic shortcuts, no blending down, no greenwashing. What we say about our wool is what's in our wool.
Human connection.
We moved from a B2B warehouse to a direct-to-consumer brand because the people who make these rugs and the people who live with them deserve to know each other. Every rug has a maker. Every rug has a home. We're the bridge.
Recognized for our craft
Four generations. One family. Countless hands.
From our grandfather grading wool in Rajasthan, to our mother sourcing fibres across the globe, to the weavers in our programme creating something beautiful from their own homes - to you, placing a handwoven rug in your living room.
That's the full journey. That's Rich Class Decor.
