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§ Case study · Identity

Tuftistry

A one-woman tufted rug studio building a name on custom commissions. The brand needed to feel like craft, not a hobby, without pricing itself out of the market it was trying to reach.

Custom tufted wool rug by Tuftistry in bone, ink, rust and warm gold, photographed on a plywood studio surface with yarn spools and a tufting gun
01 · The brief

What we started with.

  • 01

    Position Tuftistry as a considered craft studio, not another Instagram tufting account.

  • 02

    Deliver a wordmark that reads on a woven care label, a shipping box and a phone screen.

  • 03

    Set a visual system that lets the rugs — not the branding — do the talking.

02 · The approach

How we worked it out.

  • 01

    Custom serif wordmark drawn from scratch, with a soft ligature between the two t's that nods to yarn loops without being literal.

  • 02

    Palette pulled from the studio's own wool stock — bone, ink, rust and a warm gold — so brand and product photograph as one thing.

  • 03

    Care labels, hang tags and shipping stickers built as one small kit the studio can reorder without a designer in the loop.

03 · The outcome

What shipped.

  • 01

    A studio identity clients photograph and post themselves — free distribution without prompting.

  • 02

    Commission enquiries moved from 'how much for a rug' to briefs with references, budgets and rooms attached.

Deliverables
  • Custom serif wordmark + monogram
  • Woven care label & hang tag artwork
  • Packaging & shipping sticker kit
  • Palette + photography direction
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