Celebrating the textile standards that serve the betterment of our people and planet, this Earth Day.
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MUNGO meets Ingrid and Howard Walker of Walkers Beach Boutique Hotel in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. Bringing to form a happy marriage in both work and leisure, minimalism and maximalism and texture and tone, their beachside hotel captures barefoot luxury for discerning guests hoping to get the most out of their Garden Route escape. “I [...] -
Watching the 2023 Mungo Swim Club funds materialise into action, with an I AM WATER Ocean Guardian Workshop held in Knysna & Plettenberg Bay.
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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…”
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Family rituals with Mungo. Simple joys. Shared moments. Warm light and cozy linens. A short video. Summer series: Family Gathering | Linen Love | Holiday Reminiscing Featured Products Cloverleaf Tablecloth The Flax Towel Linen Scarf Read more about our linen: The lineage of our linen. -
A toast to summer settings. Natural linens, family gatherings and long, lazy afternoon light. A short video. Summer series: Family Gathering | Linen Love | Holiday Reminiscing Featured Products Kamma Linen Table Cloth Boma Napkins Skipping Block Cushions -
Kikois whisper on wild sands, Driftwood sails, nature stands. Building forts, imaginations at play, Mungo's summer, in a sunlit bay. Summer series: Family Gathering | Linen Love | Holiday Reminiscing Featured Products Ruti Kikoi in Tangerine The Scout Towel South Kikoi in Sunset -
Summer is for soaking up the sun and surf. And if you’re around Plettenberg Bay during the season, there’s nothing better than spending a couple of lazy, sun-drenched days at the beach. But while some of us are busy working on our tans, there are also those who are hard at work keeping us safe: the Plett lifeguards.
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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.
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And for the rest of the day, the smell of the sea salt lingered on your skin. Or in your hair. You had that little shiver of cold water about you. And you carried around with you a secret smile: that you’d seen the dawn. You’d danced beneath the waves.
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Five days of sunrise swimming. 655 swimmers. Over R100,000 raised for I AM WATER. Read the story of the 2023 Mungo Swim Club – and how you can join for the next one.
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Following the round-up of our 2023 Swim Club, we made the call to add on an additional swim in response to the seismic blasting scheduled for January 2024, which will have devastating impacts on our marine life, our tourism and local fishing livelihoods.
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Ditch the disposable, single-use gift paper, and perfect the art of furoshiki – a centuries-old Japanese cloth wrapping technique.
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A story inspired by a piece of cake.
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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…
