New products, new looms, international trade shows, a museum space underway, giving back through our CSR – and more. A round-up of 2024 highlights.
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Every year, Mungo’s corporate social responsibility program, MOVE, hosts a “Design Your Own Kikoi” workshop with students from Crags Primary School. All proceeds from the winning kikoi go towards funding a teacher at the school. This year’s winner is Jesslyn Windvogel with her “Galaxy” kikoi.
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We chat to Mungo Designer, Lenore, about the making of the Savannah Blanket, a multi-textural throw woven with cotton and linen.
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Traditional weaving and contemporary colour-blocking styles come to life in our new collection of Hattersley Wraps – individually woven on our 19th-century shuttle loom, ‘Hattie’.
We chat to Master Weaver and Mungo Founder, Stu Holding, about his early days in the Textile Mills in Yorkshire and his journey to South Africa with a continued commitment to the art of weaving.
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If you take a wander through the Old Nick Village grounds, there’s a spot where the trees hum with activity. Flashes of yellow. Weaver birds at work. In the run up to winter, we watch them building their nests. They are known to use only the freshest and best materials, and a masterful weave…
Planning a trip up the Garden Route? Be sure to enjoy all that Plettenberg Bay has to offer, from scenic hiking trails, a textile weaving mill, delicious delis, wine farms and more.
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“We need the goods we use to have a certain longevity.
Years, yes. A lifetime, possibly.
But what we don’t want is for our goods to outlive us…”
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“We’re at Villa d’Almè for one reason, to visit the linen spinners who have, for the past 150 years, meticulously transformed flax into yarn. We are far from the fields of Normandy where it is grown, yet the connections run deep, and the relationships are old…”
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“In the height of the season, there’s a reactiveness to the intensity. We move around a little faster, with a productive push. Buoyed by something energetic; a growing sense of excitement. But the cooling off inevitably comes…”
A reflection on seasonal changes. On growth and stillness. 
As an independent weaving mill, not swayed by seasonal trends or outside demands, we have licence to play. To create one-of-a-kind products that align our design to innovate, with a commitment to quality craftsmanship. At the Mungo Mill, we have 18 looms. A mix of antique shuttle-operated looms, and more mid-century rapier machines. Each of [...]-
With the wind up to summer, we reflect on 2023 – from our highly anticipated Swim Club and funds raised for I AM WATER, to new launches and a new retail store. It’s a time that rings of growth and good feeling, that we’ll carry well into the new year.
Spring holds a special kind of magic. A feeling of renewal, a sense of optimism. Pulled along by the promise of change that extends beyond the cold chasms of winter. In the budding of new shoots that seem to appear slowly and then all at once, in the slow crescendo to warmer days, there’s time to reflect…
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A story inspired by a piece of cake.
A call for the revolutionary power of optimism. -
Introducting a playful new palette of Skipping Block scatter cushions: Marbles, Maypole, Leapfrog and Hopscotch.
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Someone once described the Mungo Mill as a ‘cathedral to weaving’, and perhaps this is a fitting way to see it. As a functional space, with noisy looms driving the process, the design of the building had to meet certain technical requirements. But as a space reflecting a creative process, it needed a sense of artistry. Such that could reflect the approach to craftsmanship happening within; the balance of good looks and good design that is interwoven into every Mungo product.
Read the full story here.
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There’s a bench outside our Plettenberg Bay shop. The plaque reads, ‘Loom with a View.’ From here, atop a seat pulled together from old loom parts, you have a full view of our mill. It’s a place to take pause. Slow down. To contemplate the idea of changing pace if you’re feeling introspective…
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A hard look at fast fashion and the importance of traceability. A call to action: to take a deeper look behind the seams.
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Step behind the threshold of the Mungo Mill, pass the curving Coral Tree and through the glass doors, and you’ll hear a distinctive sound – of looms in action. A swell of sound, an orchestra with several players. This is the fabric of our life. Read the full story.
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What happens when one run of towels comes out smaller than the other? A reflection on flexibility, fluctuation and the pursuit of quality – that begs the question: does size really matter?
