How Much Does a Custom Tufted Rug Cost?

Type the question into Google and almost everything on page one was written for hobbyists who want to build one themselves: gun roundups, yarn calculators, plans for a wooden frame. Useful material if you are picking up the craft over a weekend. Useless if you are about to email a studio and want to know what number is coming back. So here are ours, in dollars, with nothing rounded off to make a point.

The short version

Commission work here opens at $360 for a piece at 33 × 33 in. Finished pieces sitting in the catalog run anywhere from $210 up to $895, and a commission lands on that same ladder, because it is the identical labor: drawn by hand, tufted with a gun, cut down with shears. Three variables push a quote in either direction: how big it is, how hard the drawing is, and what it gets tufted in.

Square footage does most of the work

The single heaviest factor is just how much surface there is to fill. Nothing comes off a template, so you can ask for any dimensions you want, and the price tracks the area. A 33 × 33 in square and a floor piece stretching a good nine feet are not remotely the same job in yarn, in frame space, or in hours.

An abstract is cheaper than a face

Two pieces at matching dimensions can carry different price tags, and the gap is always in the drawing. In the catalog an abstract at 33 × 33 in sits at $255, while a portrait of an animal at those same dimensions opens at $360. A portrait means a pencil study worked up from your photograph, a mockup carrying dozens of matched yarn shades, and shearing that has to sculpt something as small as the ring around an eye. Broad blocks of color are simply less work than a coat that has to read as one specific dog.

Acrylic, blends, wool

Three fibers get used here: acrylic, acrylic-wool blends and wool, and the choice shows up in the quote. Most of what you see in the catalog is acrylic, which keeps its color under a sunny window and asks almost nothing of you afterward. Wool and blended yarn get quoted per design.

Actual numbers off the catalog

None of the following are estimates; they are what the pieces cost. Use them to place your own idea somewhere on the scale. Most formats listed here are tufted after you order, over three to nine business days. The rows marked in stock leave inside a few business days.

Size (in)	What it is	Price
27.5 × 27.5 to 31.4 × 27.5	small pieces for a wall or a bedside, stock and made to order	from $210
33 × 33	abstract compositions, made to order	$255
33 × 33	portrait of an animal, drawn from your photo	from $360
59 × 32.3	full-length cat portrait, made to order	$475
67.7 × 28.7	biggest wall piece in the catalog, in stock	$640

Floor pieces at real scale, roughly eight to ten feet across, have come off this frame before and were priced between $640 and $895. Those particular ones already found homes, and anything at that size gets quoted on its own.

Paying for it

You are never asked for money on a piece you have not already seen on screen. It opens with your idea, your reference photographs or your rough sketch. We agree on dimensions, on shades and on treatment, then the finished mockup goes out alongside the number. Thirty percent up front puts you on the schedule; the rest is due only once you have looked at final photos and video of the actual object. Major credit cards, PayPal and bank transfer all work.

What is folded into that number

Free tracked shipping across the US comes with it, along with a 7-day guarantee covering transit trouble. Budget three to seventeen business days of studio time, by size, on a made-to-order piece, then five to ten days on the road. Stock pieces move out inside a few business days. Drawing time, the mockup and every revision before you approve it are not billed separately; that is simply what commissioning handwork means.

Putting your own idea on the scale

To attach these numbers to real objects, the rugs and textile wall pieces in the catalog open at $210. For a commission followed end to end, read how a pet portrait rug is made from a photo. That is the request we field more than any other, and the finished ones are gathered on the pet portrait page. For anything else, the custom order page walks through the opening move: send the idea, and a price with a lead time comes back inside 24 hours.