Mungo Design
Design in Plettenberg Bay

The leading innovative weavers in South Africa.  Designing and weaving natural fibre fabrics and finished goods for the high end wholesale and retail markets and the hospitality industry.

Based in the seaside town Plettenberg Bay, South Africa and housed in the historical homestead of Old Nick Village. Other fabrics are woven in a boutique weavery close by which employs and empowers the local community. We design, weave and make a wide range of home ware products including table linens, bedding, throws, apparel and more. Mungo is a unique textile company with the rare ability to create fabrics from the inception of design to the final product. Ensuring all our products are from an ethical and quality beginning. Textiles inspired by history taking us into the future. This allows us to be organic in our design process. Some of our designs are adapted from historic pattern books and given a creative or modern edge with tweaking here and there. We still lay out the design on traditional graph paper which is translated and punched by hand onto the pattern card. Once one of our fabrics has been designed and created we will take it home and live with it. The product then grows from the cloth as we become familiar with its individual characteristics. It is from here onwards that our fabrics are refined, resulting in exemplary handle and quality. The process starts by sourcing a suitable yarn which matches the requirements that the product will need, the fabric must be durable, aesthetically pleasing, and have a great tactile quality.We only weave with natural fibres. Our linen (Flax) is grown in Belgium and imported in its raw form. It is then processed in Atlantis (West coast, South Africa) into the linen yarn. We use South African grown and produced cotton, wool and mohair. South Africa is know for some of the worlds highest quality mohair. Mungo's production consists of two weaving operations. This is situated at Old Nick Village (Mungo HQ) and open for the public to experience these fine looms in action. The Hattersley looms were gifted to Stuart many years ago. He restored them with much patience and skill and we still think of them as the ''beating heart' of Mungo. Our boutique mill comprises of our warping equipment and the more 'modern' Rapier looms which allows us to weave wider width fabrics. This bustling hub of Mungo has fabric piled up the walls and fabric rolls stacked in the rafters! Here you will find the CMT, constant designing, washing, testing and making of all the new product being produced. We are building what we are calling the Mungo Mill, a working weaving museum that will open to the public in order to showcase the age old art of weaving, from pre industrial-revolution to present day.