Fashioning Felt

The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum located in Manhattan, has on view the exhibition, Fashioning Felt. Curated by Susan Brown, it explores new uses of an old material— felt, believed to be one of the earliest techniques for making textiles. Featured artists include Janice Arnold, who you can read about on the exhibition’s blog. She discusses her design process through a series of sketches. It’s interesting that Arnold gets areas of thin transparency in the midst of her dense wool felt. Los Angeles-based artist Andrea Zittel shows some of her cool felted dresses. That is her work pictured at left. Her blog, A-Z is definitely worth a look. Also featured are felted furniture and home decor objects. I’m into Nani-Marquina’s Little Field of Flowers Carpet. You can read a review of Fashioning Felt at The Statement a monthly e-zine for professional designers. Fascinating stuff. Want to do your own felting? Check out Knitty and Patons for good tutorials. The book, AlterKnits Felt by Leigh Radford is beautiful. Go here for felted potholder and wine cozy patterns. Felt: it’s sustainable, durable, and tactile. It’s also pretty fun to make.

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