Hand-tufted pet rugs · Made to order
A hand-tufted rug you recognize your pet in
Ksenia Derr redraws your animal by hand, matches the acrylic yarn to its real coat and tufts it one field of color at a time. Nothing here is printed, and the pile is packed tight enough for the small details to survive. Four business days on the frame and roughly two weeks to your door, with free tracked shipping across the US.
How it works
How a photograph becomes a portrait
- 1
You send a photo
An ordinary snapshot from your phone is enough. One photo is all we need; more angles just give the drawing more to work from.
An actual first exchange: the photo lands, and the questions begin.Shared with the customer’s permission. - 2
Ksenia redraws it by hand
Your photo becomes a color mockup with yarn shades pulled against the real coat. You approve it before anything is made, and changes at that stage cost nothing.
Pencil sketch to color mockup, held against the real coat. - 3
The tufting begins
A hand-held gun drives acrylic yarn through a stretched textile base, one field of color after another. A 33 × 33 in portrait is four business days from frame to finish.
Outlines going onto the stretched backing before the gun starts. - 4
The pile is shaped and finished
It is leveled with a trimmer, then finished by hand with scissors. You receive photographs of the finished piece before it is boxed.
Leveling the pile, then shaping the detail by hand with scissors.
What you are paying for
Why the likeness holds
Two things make the difference, and both can be measured.
The first is density. A 33 × 33 in portrait takes 4.85 lbs of yarn, about 290 grams per square foot. The usual trade figure at this pile height is 227. The tighter the stitch, the smaller the detail the needle can hold, and that is why an eye reads as an eye rather than as a dark patch.
The second is that black is never worked in black. A black coat is built from grays, blues and browns, the way a painter builds volume out of color rather than shadow. A printing press reproduces pixels. A copyist reaches for black yarn. Neither one gives you the animal back.
Made for real animals
Portraits already made
Two collections
Commission
Your sketch, tufted by hand
Not every commission is a pet. Send a drawing, a photograph, a logo or a color palette and it can be tufted at the size your wall needs. The mockup comes back to you before anything is made, and the price follows the area, so you know both before you decide. Bigger pieces take longer, and every one is worked start to finish by hand.
Commission
Have a piece in mind?
Made to order in any size. We reply within 24 hours with a price and a lead time.
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