Hand-tufted pet rugs · Made to order
A hand-tufted rug you recognise your pet in
Ksenia Derr redraws your animal by hand, matches the acrylic yarn to its real coat and tufts it one field of colour at a time. Nothing here is printed, and the pile is packed tight enough for the small details to survive. Four working days on the frame and about two weeks to your door, shipped free and tracked across the EU and to 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 photograph is all we need; more angles simply give the drawing more to go on.
A real first exchange: the photo arrives, and the questions start.Published with the customer’s permission. - 2
Ksenia redraws it by hand
She turns the photograph into a colour mockup and matches yarn shades against the real coat. You see it and approve it before anything is made. Revisions are free.
From a pencil sketch to a colour mockup, matched against the coat. - 3
The tufting begins
A hand-held gun drives acrylic yarn through a stretched textile base, one field of colour after another. An 84 × 84 cm portrait is four working days from frame to finish.
Contours traced onto the stretched base before the gun starts. - 4
The pile is shaped and finished
It is levelled with a trimmer, then finished by hand with scissors. You receive photographs of the finished piece before it is boxed.
Levelling 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. An 84 × 84 cm portrait takes 2.2 kg 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 greys, blues and browns, the way a painter builds volume out of colour 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 colour 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. Larger pieces take longer, and each one is worked from start to finish by hand.
Commission
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Made to order in any size. We reply within 24 hours with a price and a lead time.
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