Juan Lopez says he can make pretty much any 2-D image into a fuzzy, fluffy floor covering – except one thing.
“I can’t do stars. That’s been my limitation,” said Lopez. “One of the first rugs that somebody asked for, it was their logo and it had a bunch of little tiny stars. I couldn’t even make it look like a snowflake. It just looked like a furry blob.
“That’s been the biggest hiccup. I’m fearful of stars to this day.”
Luckily, there are plenty of other images for him to convert into a rug – including ones that will never actually touch the floor.
“I’ve done a couple of anime. I’ve done sports type of stuff,” Lopez said. “I did a Virgin Mary rug and I was like, ‘are you going to put this on the floor?’ They’re like, ‘no, there’s no way I’m going to put the Virgin Mary on the floor.’ I said ‘okay, great.’”
Lopez began making custom rugs in early 2021. He learned the…
