This design started out as a digital image made with fur simulation tools in Cinema4D where I painted an image in photoshop and then used that as an image map that drove the fur map coloration. As someone that grew up in Colorado Springs and a lover of the Rocky Mountains and Pikes Peak, I personally long to look at mountains as frequently as possible and that’s where this artwork came from. A few years after the digital mockup I handmade the rug with a hand crank tufing tool called the Danella tool. The Danella tool is much more fine and controlled than the typical electrical tufting guns that have become immensely popular in recent years. I used my stash of lace weight and fingering weight yarns to feed through the Danella tool for this final result.