The flagship
Embroidered portraits
Your cat, dog, rabbit, hamster — or the person you love — redrawn as art, then stitched in thread onto organic cotton in England.
A badge, not a print
Embroidery has a hard limit that printing does not: 10 × 10 cm is the largest area the machines will stitch. So a Lumina embroidered portrait is a left-chest badge about the size of your palm — head and shoulders, whether that is a cat, a dog, a rabbit, a hamster or a person, raised off the fabric with the thread catching the light.
We are telling you this first because every printed portrait you have seen online covers the whole chest, and it would be easy to expect the same here. It is a different object. Smaller, quieter, and considerably harder to make.
- Thread colours
- Up to 6
- Where it is made
- England
Each is a physical spool of a fixed colour. There is no blending, so the portrait is built from flat areas — which is why the styles below matter.
Stitched to order in an English workshop onto certified organic cotton, then posted directly to you.
From photograph to thread
One
Your photo becomes art
Upload a phone snapshot. The studio renders a portrait in under a minute, free, and you can restyle it as often as you like.
Two
You approve it
Nothing is sent anywhere until the artwork is one you want. This is the last cheap moment to change your mind, and we would rather you used it.
Three
It is digitised
The portrait is converted into a stitch file — a map of every needle movement. Because every Lumina portrait is unique, this is done fresh for each order, which is why the first one takes a little longer.
Four
It is stitched and posted
The garment goes through the embroidery machine in England and ships directly to you.
Stitched to order
Five garments
Organic cotton, in adult and children's sizes. Every one carries a single left-chest portrait.
Thread has opinions
Not every style can be stitched
A needle cannot fade, blend or glow. Styles built from flat shapes and clean lines become better objects in thread than they are on paper; styles built from washes and soft light stop being themselves. So we only offer the ones that work, and we would rather name the others than let you find out after paying.
Stitches beautifully
Printed only
These are all available as prints, canvases and framed pieces, where nothing is lost.
Close enough to count the stitches
This is what 6 thread colours look like at 10 cm: the shape of the head, the set of the ears, the markings that only they have. Not the texture of fur or hair — thread cannot do texture — but the likeness of one specific face, which is the part that makes someone recognise them across a room.
Free preview · no account needed · nothing stitched until you approve it
