This piece is intended primarily as textile wall art. If displayed on the floor, regular or heavy foot traffic is not recommended.

Pet portraits usually stop at the chin. This one keeps going: Lucian head to tail, paws and every fur marking included, set against a flat blue ground that lets the figure carry across a room. One frame in the gallery cuts the picture in two, the tufted version on top and the source photograph underneath, so you can judge the resemblance without taking our word for it.

At 59 × 32.3 in the cat is drawn well beyond life size, and 9.92 lbs of sheared pile gives the piece genuine weight on a wall. The textile back takes mounting hardware and carries it as serious textile wall art above the couch, in a den or in a nursery.

Getting the likeness right is slow work. Ksenia Derr builds a full-body mockup from your photographs and matches yarn to the coat the animal really has; the close-up shots show how many distinct grays, browns and creams it takes before fur stops looking like yarn. Once you approve that mockup, the rug is tufted in acrylic on a textile base. After the adhesive backing dries it comes off the frame, and the pile is leveled and then shaped in stages. A non-slip textile layer keeps it stable when displayed on the floor.

Because every drawing is made fresh, nothing about the format is fixed: a smaller cat, a bigger dog, another background color, whatever dimensions your wall wants. Dogs, cats and horses come up most often, and any pet at all can be drawn at full length like this. It is the very same commission as a custom pet rug. This example is $475 at 59 × 32.3 in, and other sizes are quoted once we have seen your photo and your measurements. Allow nine business days of making, then free tracked shipping across the US. Care runs the standard acrylic routine: lint roller first, a gentle vacuum when needed, a professional cleaner for anything serious, and never a washing machine.

What got picked for this one

A cat · full length, tail and paws in · true to his actual coat · a plain ground behind him.

$475 · 59 × 32.3 in · nine business days on the frame.

About two and a half weeks from the order to your door: nine business days on the frame, five to ten in transit, and the mockup in between, sitting until you approve it. A booked-up studio stretches that, so the date gets confirmed at the order.

Full length is the one pick that settles the format for you: a whole animal will not fit the 33 × 33 in square, so it moves onto an elongated piece and the price tracks the area. Everything else stays yours to decide. Start from your own photo on the custom pet rug page.