ABOUT

Where are we and what are we about? 

Since 1982, The Nomads Tent has been bringing the colours, textures, and craftsmanship of the East to Edinburgh. After more than three decades in our warehouse at St Leonard’s Lane, we are delighted to welcome you to our new home in Marchmont. There we continue to supply rugs for homes in and beyond Edinburgh.

We keep a selection of floor coverings including kilims (flatweaves), rugs, runners and room size carpets, a range of sofa stools (also made to any specified size and covering), silver jewellery, tribal and ceremonial jewellery and textiles, Jaipur block-print table cloths, kantha throws and kantha silk scarves and many assorted hand made cushions.

We offer rug repair and cleaning, moth treatments, underlays and 40 years of accumulated rug advice and valuations and also occasionally we buy rugs.

The new gallery at 2 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, 150 metres from The Meadows, is set in a late 19th century street level premises (with two steps!); an early, purposely designed shop that retains some lovely original interior and exterior features.

Warrender Park Road and Argyll Place form a delightful destination for shopping and food but a great range of other shops and services too. These include Marchmont Hardware, one of Edinburgh's few remaining hardware stores, Amnesty Bookshop, the famous Eddie's Fishmongers, New Leaf Co-operative for organic and health foods, some excellent coffee shops, restaurants such as The Rabbit Hole, Nadair and Argile and one of the best street food kiosks we have seen in Edinburgh.

Our commitment as traders of imported rugs and textiles is to trade fairly with our suppliers, to celebrate creativity, and to offer treasures that carry stories as well as craftsmanship. From time to time we hope to make space for small scale, intimate gatherings of talks, music and discussion.

No prizes offered, but who said this?

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.