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

A lobster pulled apart and put back together the way the cubists handled a still life: thick outlines, interlocking fields of red, blue, green and pink, the body seen from several sides at once. The subject nods to the long run of the lobster through still-life painting; the handling is flat, geometric and loud. This is textile wall art in the strict sense, a hand-tufted picture meant for the wall.

At 67.7 × 28.7 in it is the largest wall piece we have made, a long banner of a format that fits a stairwell wall, the run above a sideboard, or the length of a finished basement. The photographs put it on a historic stone staircase, where the saturated palette holds its ground against carved ornament, which is a fair test for a modern piece.

Unlike our smaller wall rugs it arrives with no hooks and no loops, and that is on purpose. The textile back is prepared for tension framing: a framer, a gallery or an interior design studio pulls the piece taut the way a canvas is stretched over bars, which gives it flat, architectural edges. It ships unframed, weighs 12.1 lbs, and was tufted entirely by hand, each field of color a separate area of sheared acrylic pile, the bold outlines standing as real boundaries between the tones.

One exists, and it is in stock: $640, marked down from $810, out the door within 5 to 10 business days with free tracked delivery across the US. Hung clear of foot traffic it asks for almost nothing, a lint roller now and then or a light vacuum. If the subject works for you but the size or the palette does not, a related composition can be commissioned, and made-to-order work runs nine business days.