The first time I saw a Claire Murray rug it was in a sample-room flat in St. Louis sometime in the late 1980s, propped against a paste-up board because nobody could figure out where else to put it. The rep had brought a hand-hooked piece with a pair of mallards and a border of cattails, and one of our merchandise managers, a no-nonsense woman named Eileen who had survived three changes of ownership at our shop, ran her hand across it and said, “Well, that’s the real thing.” Coming from her, that was a parade. It is a small memory and probably useless to anyone but me, but I think of it whenever the Claire Murray name comes up, which is more often than you might guess.
So when a reader asks how to get the Claire Murray Rugs and Decor catalog mailed to her door, free of charge, in the year 2025, I am happy to walk through it. The mechanics have not changed much in forty years. What has changed is the world around the mailbox.
About the Claire Murray Rugs and Decor Catalog
For folks unfamiliar with the brand, Claire Murray began on Nantucket in the early 1980s. She picked up rug hooking, the story goes, on a winter ferry crossing, and turned it into a small workshop business that drew needle-arts enthusiasts from all over. The look she developed — coastal motifs, soft marine palettes, a touch of folk-art whimsy — became a category of its own. Hydrangeas, lighthouses, schools of fish, the occasional moose for the inland customers. Hand-hooked wool that wears like iron and ages into something handsomer than the day it shipped.
The current catalog reflects all of that. Rugs, of course, in both the hand-hooked wool tradition and the newer washable line that the company introduced for households with dogs and grandchildren and the usual realities. Pillows, totes, bedding, accessories. It is a tightly merchandised book — not a four-color phone directory the way some catalogs of the 1990s ran — and it photographs well, which matters when half your selling job is convincing a customer to commit to a piece for the front hall.
How to Order the Free Claire Murray Catalog
Here is the simple part. To request the catalog, head to the catalogs.com listing for Claire Murray Rugs and fill out the request form. You’ll need:
- Your full name, first and last
- A complete US mailing address — street number, apartment if applicable, city, state, ZIP
- A working email address
Hit submit and the order goes into the queue. Plan on roughly two weeks for the catalog to arrive in your mailbox. In my old line of work we used to quote 10 to 14 business days, and the math has not improved much. The post office is the post office.
One detail worth knowing: Claire Murray catalogs are mailed only inside the United States. If you have family in Canada or overseas, the catalog stops at the border, though the website does not.
Other Ways to Shop Claire Murray
If a printed book is not your preference, or you cannot wait for the mail, the company maintains a full e-commerce site at clairemurray.com. The navigation is laid out in five sections — Home, Rugs, Accessories, Sale, and Outlet — and each one drills into the kind of subcategories you would expect. Under Rugs, you can browse the hand-hooked wool collection, the washable line, and what they call Claire’s Classic Rugs, which is more or less the greatest-hits archive.
If you happen to have an older catalog on the coffee table, you can punch the item number directly into the search field on the site and skip the menus altogether. That feature is a small kindness to longtime customers, and I notice it every time. Most catalog houses dropped item-number search a decade ago, on the theory that nobody keeps the book anymore. Apparently Claire Murray’s buyers know better.
You can also place an order by telephone. The number listed on the company’s site as of late 2025 is 508-375-0331, used for special and custom orders. Hours are limited — afternoon Cape Cod time on weekdays — so if you reach a voicemail, leave a message and try again the next morning. The number that may be printed in older 2010s-era catalogs (508-694-5675) appears to have been retired, so the safe bet is the 375-0331 line.
The Sale and Outlet menus are worth a click on their own. Selected items are marked 40 to 60 percent off the regular price, and the Outlet page tends to carry first-quality rugs in patterns the company is rotating out, plus a handful of true closeouts. In my experience, the closeouts on hand-hooked wool are where the buy lives. A rug that listed for the better part of a thousand dollars two seasons ago can land in the outlet for a fraction of that, and there is no functional difference between the closeout and the in-line goods. The pattern is simply being retired to make room for the next book.
If You Liked the Claire Murray Catalog
Readers who enjoy the Claire Murray book often gravitate toward a few neighbors on the rack. Plow & Hearth covers the country-and-coastal home category from a different angle — more outdoor and garden, but with a similar respect for older American craft. Her Home Magazine sits more on the editorial side and tends to spark ideas before it sparks orders. And LTD Commodities remains a useful general-merchandise book for accents and seasonal decor at lower price points, though the sensibility is different.
A Note for the Sixty-Plus Reader
I have spent fifty years watching catalog houses come and go. The ones that last tend to share a few traits: a clear point of view, a customer base that knows them by name, and a willingness to keep printing the book even when the consultants insist nobody reads paper anymore. Claire Murray fits all three. So when you fill out that request form, you are not chasing a relic — you are participating in something that still works, for the same reason it always worked. A good catalog gives you the room to think, the kitchen-table view of a piece you might own for twenty years, and the time to decide without somebody at a screen pushing you toward checkout.
Order the book. Let it sit on the side table for a week. Look at it twice. Then call or click. That is how rugs of this caliber have been bought for decades, and I see no reason to change the procedure now.
