A $29 pet portrait or a $379 one: what the difference actually is
A marketplace listing is around $29 and a studio piece is $379. What is actually different, what the extra money buys, and when the cheaper piece is the right purchase.
Category How it is made
Why hand-felting takes weeks, in photographs
Loose fibre, a barbed needle, and a coat built up in layers. A stage-by-stage account of the work, including the parts that get thrown away and the things wool cannot do.
What a commission is — and why it costs what it does
Nothing exists yet, nothing can be batched, and there is no second copy. What you are actually buying when you commission a portrait, and when it is the wrong purchase.
How much should a pet memorial cost?
What a printed reproduction, a mass-produced figurine and a commissioned piece actually are, what drives the price of the last one, and when a cheaper piece is the honest answer.
Five details that make a felt portrait recognisable
It is rarely the whole face. It is one ear, one patch, one look — and those are what we ask you about.
Why a commission takes six to fourteen weeks
It is not a queue we are hiding behind. Hand work has a floor, and rushing it shows in the finished piece.
