Welcome to your island

Animal Crossing began in Japan in 2001 and has been one of Nintendo's gentlest and best-loved series ever since: Wild World on the DS, City Folk on the Wii, New Leaf on the 3DS and, in March 2020, New Horizons on the Switch, which arrived just as millions of people needed somewhere calm to go. You move to a village or island full of animal neighbors, pay off a house loan, catch fish and bugs, dig up fossils, decorate, and simply live, one real-time day after another.

Fans of the series already know rugs well, since decorating your island home with them is part of the game, so a real one for your own room feels like the natural next step.

Players spend hundreds of hours making their homes and islands just right, choosing every piece of furniture, every wallpaper and, yes, every rug. An Animal Crossing rug brings that same care into a real room. Ours are printed into short velvet, so the series' soft, rounded colors and cheerful patterns come out clean and bright, and they go in the washing machine.

The leaf

The Animal Crossing leaf, a simple, rounded green leaf with a single vein, is the series' emblem and one of the most recognizable symbols in Nintendo's catalog. On a round rug, it's calm, fresh and minimal, and it reads as a lovely botanical design to anyone who hasn't played. It's also the most subtle Animal Crossing rug for a shared room, and our botanical rugs sit naturally beside it.

Island fruit

Every island starts with a native fruit, apples, oranges, pears, peaches or cherries, and players trade with friends to collect the rest, plus coconuts on the beach. Fruit trees, fruit baskets and the satisfying shake of a tree are part of daily island life. A fruit-pattern rug, rounded fruit scattered across a soft ground, is a cheerful design that suits a kitchen, a breakfast nook or a child's room, and our strawberry rugs share the same fresh, fruity look.

The residents

Animal Crossing's characters are part of the family for its fans:

• Isabelle, the cheerful shih tzu who keeps the town running.
• Tom Nook, the tanuki businessman, endlessly patient about your loan.
• Timmy and Tommy, his twin nephews who run the shop.
• K.K. Slider, the guitar-playing dog who gives concerts on Saturday nights.
• Blathers, the owl curator of the museum, who loves fossils and fears bugs, and his sister Celeste, the stargazer.
• Mabel and Sable, the Able Sisters, who sell clothes and patterns.
• Brewster, the pigeon barista of The Roost café.

An Isabelle rug makes a sweet character design, a happy, friendly face for a bedroom or a doorway that greets you every morning. A K.K. Slider design suits a music corner beautifully.

Your favorite villager

Beyond the shopkeepers, every island has its own animal neighbors, chosen from hundreds of villagers with distinct personalities, and players become deeply attached to their favorites: Raymond the cat with mismatched eyes, Marshal the smug squirrel, Judy, Sherb, Zucker, Ankha, Bob, Coco and so many more. A rug featuring a favorite villager is one of the most personal designs a fan can choose, and a lovely gift for a friend who still talks about the day their dream villager moved in.

The museum

Blathers's museum is one of the series' great joys: halls of fossils, an aquarium of every fish, a garden of every bug, and an art gallery. Filling it is a long-term goal for every player. A museum-themed rug, fossil skeletons, a butterfly collection, fish in a tank, is a wonderful design for a curious child's room or a study, and it echoes the game's love of nature and collecting.

Like the Able Sisters

One of Animal Crossing's best-loved tools is the custom design pattern editor at the Able Sisters' shop, where players create their own clothes, flags, paths and, of course, rugs, pixel by pixel. Fans share their designs with each other through creator codes. That spirit of making your own is exactly what our custom rugs are for: send us a pattern, a design you made in the game, or anything you've drawn, and we'll print it as a real rug in any size up to 5′11″ × 10′.

Real rugs, like in the game

In Animal Crossing, rugs are furniture: round rugs, shaped rugs, kitchen mats and big area rugs that tie a room together. Players arrange their homes for the Happy Home Academy's evaluation and, in Happy Home Paradise, design holiday homes for the residents. Putting a real rug in your real room, styled with the same care, is a delightful bit of meta decor, as if the game had spilled out into your home.

Music for every hour

Animal Crossing has a different background tune for every hour of the day, gentle in the early morning, lively at noon, sleepy late at night, and players often leave the game running just to listen. K.K. Slider's songs, from K.K. Bossa to Bubblegum K.K., have fans of their own; the character is a playful nod to the series' composer Kazumi Totaka. A K.K. Slider design is a sweet tribute in a music corner or beside a record player.

Wishing on stars

On clear nights, Celeste sometimes appears on the island and meteor showers light up the sky, and players wish on shooting stars to find star fragments on the beach the next morning. A night-sky design, a small island under a sky full of falling stars, is a dreamy, calm rug for a bedroom, and it pairs beautifully with our celestial rugs.

Your island, from above

New Horizons lets players reshape their island entirely: cliffs, rivers, waterfalls, paths, gardens and the plaza where Resident Services stands. Many fans plan their layouts on paper first. A top-down island map in the game's soft style makes a charming rug, and through our custom rugs you can even print a picture of your own island's map.

Coffee at The Roost

Brewster's café, The Roost, is a quiet, warm corner of the museum where you can sit at the counter with a cup of coffee and listen to soft music. A Roost-inspired design, coffee cups and the café's cozy wood and lamplight, is a lovely rug for a kitchen or a home coffee corner.

Seasons and events

Animal Crossing runs on real time, so the island changes with the seasons: cherry blossoms in spring, fireflies and fireworks in summer, maple leaves and mushrooms in autumn, snow and festive lights in winter. Seasonal events like Bunny Day, Halloween and Toy Day give each month its own look. A seasonal design lets you match the rug to the time of year, or to your favorite season on the island. Our Christmas rugs and Halloween rugs have more seasonal ideas.

Bells and turnips

The island's currency is bells, golden sacks marked with a star, and its most famous market is the turnip trade: buy from Daisy Mae on Sunday mornings, sell during the week, and hope the prices spike. A bell-bag or turnip design is a funny, specific joke for players who spent too long checking turnip prices with friends.

Cozy rooms

Animal Crossing is at the heart of the cozy-gaming movement, and its look suits a cozy room perfectly: soft pastels, rounded furniture, plants, warm lamps and fairy lights. A leaf or fruit rug in a gaming corner, with a soft chair, a Switch and a cup of tea, is the whole aesthetic. If you love cozy farm games too, our Stardew Valley rugs share the same gentle spirit.

Kids' rooms

Animal Crossing's gentle, friendly world is perfect for children. An Isabelle, a fruit pattern or the leaf makes a cheerful play rug. On slippery floors, choose Standard, 5 mm crushed velvet on a non-slip faux leather back, so the rug stays put, and remember every rug goes in the washing machine.

Sizes and levels

The leaf, a fruit or a character face suits a 3.3 to 3.9 ft (100 to 120 cm) round rug. A fruit pattern or museum design suits a rectangle, 3.3×5 or 4×6 ft. For a bedroom, choose Premium, 7 mm plush velvet on a bamboo and cotton back, softer and warmer for bare feet. In a kitchen, a 2×3 ft Standard rug grips the floor.

Gifts

An Animal Crossing rug is a perfect gift for the friend who still visits their island every day, or a child who just caught their first coelacanth. If you aren't sure which design to choose, the leaf or Isabelle is the safest choice. Every rug is printed to order in 1–3 business days and ships from Turkey; US delivery usually takes 2–5 business days after that.

Care

Machine wash on a gentle, cold cycle and let it air dry flat. Vacuum on a low setting between washes. The design is printed into the fibers, so the colors stay as fresh as a spring morning on the island.

A note on the series

Saturday nights with K.K.

In New Horizons, the guitar-playing dog K.K. Slider plays the island plaza every Saturday night. A rug of a small outdoor stage, a wooden stool and a guitar under a starry sky captures that weekly concert without a character portrait, a nice choice for a music corner or a living room.

Padrift is an independent studio. Animal Crossing and its characters are named to describe what our designs are inspired by; we are not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Nintendo.