Studio & Business

Custom pet portraits are more than another tufted rug. From choosing the right reference photo and simplifying it into workable colour blocks to managing detail, size, revisions and pricing, every decision affects the final result—and what you should charge.

One rug is a piece of work. Twenty of the same rug is an order, and an order has to arrive looking like itself. What to weigh before you buy, how to batch by colour, where a run drifts, and why the queue forms at the carving table rather than the frame.

Not the pieces that took longest, and usually not the ones a maker would put in a portfolio. A look at what tufted work actually sells — by category, by size, by price, and by where it's sold.

Costs only tell you the floor. What people pay above it, they pay for the part of the rug that could only have come from you — and that's the part a machine never touches. The five factors, and what shifts when the tufting is automated.