Biodegradable handmade rugs — woven by artisan craftspeople in Panipat & Jaipur using patented CiCLO® biodegradable technology.
· Biodegradable TechnologyEvery time you wash a synthetic curtain or tablecloth, millions of microscopic plastic fibres flow silently from your drain into rivers, seas and eventually your food. They never break down. Until now.
Each wash cycle sheds up to 700,000 microplastic fibres from a single synthetic textile item.
Wastewater treatment plants capture only 70–80% of microplastics. Millions escape into waterways every day.
Fish eat microplastics. We eat the fish. Human blood, lungs, and placentas now routinely test positive for microplastics.
The curtain you bought today will still be releasing plastic into the environment well into the 22nd century.
Certified · Tested · Traceable · Trusted — Made to last, not here forever.™CiCLO® is a patented additive fused into polyester during melt extrusion — it creates biodegradable spots in the plastic matrix where naturally-occurring microbes can break the fibre down, just like wool or cotton.
The result: synthetic textiles with all the durability and performance you expect, that biodegrade responsibly when they reach the environment.
CiCLO® is fused into polyester pellets during melt extrusion at the yarn maker's facility. It becomes part of the molecular structure.
Identical durability, colour, and handle to conventional polyester. CiCLO® only activates when fibres reach an active microbial environment.
Third-party ASTM tests confirm 94% biodegradation in seawater and 91% in soil. Only biogas and biomass remain — no toxic residue.
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Each product is handwoven or handloomed, made with CiCLO® biodegradable polyester, and crafted by artisans in Panipat and Sanganer — where the yarn is certified and the premium you pay reaches the person who made it.
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CiCLO®Jiwarajka Textile Industries is a polyester yarn manufacturer that partnered with CiCLO® technology in April 2025. Jiwarajka supplies the CiCLO® yarn to us through its CSR (corporate social responsibility) work.
EcoWeave doesn't make or sell yarn. What we do is take that yarn and redistribute it to the artisans who weave our rugs.
Read the Jiwarajka × CiCLO® Story ↗CiCLO® yarn comes to us through Jiwarajka's CSR work.
We pass the yarn on to the artisans who weave the rugs.
EcoWeave is a student-run project. Jiwarajka supports the yarn supply only — it isn't responsible for our rugs, prices or claims.
EcoWeave™ is more than a product line — it's an economic model. We take the CiCLO® yarn that Jiwarajka supplies through its CSR work and redistribute it to weavers directly, so artisans can make rugs for a market that cares about biodegradable materials.
Our goal is for weavers using CiCLO® certified yarn to earn more than they would on commodity polyester — that's the whole point of this project.
India's home textile capital. Weavers and workshops moving toward CiCLO® certified production.
Block print and weaving artisans. Ancient craft techniques on next-generation biodegradable substrate.
35% of ocean microplastics come from synthetic textiles. Every EcoWeave™ purchase pushes back on that number.
Our goal is for weavers using CiCLO® certified yarn to earn more than they would on commodity polyester.
Founded by a high-school student with a conviction: that young Indians can build globally relevant impact businesses.
CiCLO® is fully compatible with rPET recycling streams — recyclable when possible, biodegradable when not.
EcoWeave was co-founded by Aarav and Navya Gupta — a brother and sister from Jaipur who share the belief that sustainable design must serve two masters equally: the planet, and the artisan who makes the product possible. Aarav leads the venture as Managing Head, looking after the CiCLO® yarn supply and the commercial side of things. Navya leads as Art Head, making sure every product is nice enough to actually want and honest enough to mean something.
"EcoWeave was born from a simple conviction — that sustainable textiles must be economically superior for the producer, or they will never scale."
Aarav leads EcoWeave as Managing Head. He identified the microplastic crisis in synthetic home textiles, discovered CiCLO® technology, and built the artisan platform model from scratch — including setting up the CiCLO® yarn supply (from Jiwarajka's CSR) that we redistribute to weavers.
Aarav's core insight: sustainability only sticks if the economics work for every person in the supply chain. EcoWeave proves this — CiCLO® certified weavers can earn more than they would on commodity polyester. The certification doesn't cost the weaver anything. It pays them.
"If I can make you fall in love with a rug or a tablecloth, I can guarantee the weaver behind it earns what they deserve. Design is the mechanism of that guarantee."
I co-founded EcoWeave because I wanted sustainability to actually look good, not just be responsible. My work starts with the artisans — the way they think about colour, the hand-memory built from years at the loom, their instinct for proportion. I try to bring that into designs that still feel current, so every piece is rooted in craft but doesn't look out of place in a modern home.
A product nobody wants to buy doesn't help anyone, no matter how sustainable it is. When I make what our weavers produce look better — mixing traditional techniques with a more current look — it can sell for more, and that extra money goes back to the person who made it. That's why design matters here. It's not decoration. It's how the maker actually gets paid fairly.
Aarav Gupta · Class of 2026, Jayshree Periwal International School, Jaipur
Growing up in Jaipur — a city built around centuries-old textile traditions — I watched local artisans abandon sustainable heritage fabrics for cheap synthetics just to make ends meet. Around the same time, I came across research on the microplastic crisis these synthetics were causing worldwide, and it stuck with me.
I discovered CiCLO® technology — a patented biodegradable fibre additive already used by brands like Target, Walmart, Best Western Hotels and Billabong — and wanted to use it for Indian handmade rugs. EcoWeave™ was our answer: bring CiCLO® to Indian weavers, prove it can work commercially, then open it up to any weaver who wants a better rate and a product worth talking about.
A charity model creates dependency, not something that lasts on its own. So EcoWeave™ is built around two simple ideas: getting CiCLO® technology into artisan supply chains, and building a way to sell the resulting products directly to buyers who care about where their textiles come from. The technology makes the economics work. The economics are what make the sustainability stick.
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