Preamble
This blogspot has a number of posts on felt and felted objects which have been listed below for your convenience.
Hallstatt Textiles
Nuno Felted Scarves@Felted Pleasure
Fabric Construction - Felt
Felted Garments
Felted Accessories
Felted Works of the 1980s
Felt Shawls
Felt Objects - Part I
Introduction [1]
Felt making as a creative discipline has been taking shape for some time now. Once relegated to areas of heavy industry and children's crafts, felt now plays a complex role in designs of all kinds. From jewellery and furniture to clothing and decorative arts, the material accommodates a range of moods, aesthetic styles and purposes.
Traditional art media like ceramics and woodworking have benefitted from hundreds of years of refinement by highly skilled practitioners. With felt the process has happened far more recently. New techniques were developed in studios and shared workshops around the world. Felt artists are innovating like mad. As you will discover in past and future blogs about felt, recent designers employ a variety of techniques, including traditional wet felting, hybrid felting and needle felting. They use felt that's made by hand and by machine. Through work that's remarkably eclectic, they are demonstrating how over the past few decades, the materials identity has changed.
Felt has been in use across Central Asia for thousands of years. Believed to be one of the earliest man-made materials, it arose during the Neolithic period and was indispensable to nomadic cultures like the Mongols, who used it to make items as varied and necessary as saddles, boots and circular tents called yurts. Among nomadic cultures, felt was also worked into colorful patterned carpets, tent bands, bags, and clothing. Many of the modern artists using felts reference these societies in their work.
Felt Objects - Part I [1]
Artist: Bita Chezelayayagh.
Title: Felted Memories III (2009).
Artist: Kathryn Walter.
Title: Felt Striation (Screening Room Doors, 2006).
Artist: Anne Kyyrö.
Title: Rosette Acoustic Wall Panel (2006).
Artist: VANDERBOS.
Title: Embracement #036 (2004).
Artist: Jorie Johnson.
Title: Sumi Series: Flare Coat (2008).
Artist: Stephanie Metz.
Title: Teddy Skull: Ursulus disneyus solicitudo (2008).
Artist: Marjolein Dalinga.
Title: Red Craters (2009).
Artist: Lilyana Bekic.
Title: Grey Corollarium (2009).
Reference:
[1] Susan Brown, 500 Felt Objects, Editors Note. Mornu and J. Hale, Lark Crafts, an Imprint of Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. (2011).
This blogspot has a number of posts on felt and felted objects which have been listed below for your convenience.
Hallstatt Textiles
Nuno Felted Scarves@Felted Pleasure
Fabric Construction - Felt
Felted Garments
Felted Accessories
Felted Works of the 1980s
Felt Shawls
Felt Objects - Part I
Introduction [1]
Felt making as a creative discipline has been taking shape for some time now. Once relegated to areas of heavy industry and children's crafts, felt now plays a complex role in designs of all kinds. From jewellery and furniture to clothing and decorative arts, the material accommodates a range of moods, aesthetic styles and purposes.
Traditional art media like ceramics and woodworking have benefitted from hundreds of years of refinement by highly skilled practitioners. With felt the process has happened far more recently. New techniques were developed in studios and shared workshops around the world. Felt artists are innovating like mad. As you will discover in past and future blogs about felt, recent designers employ a variety of techniques, including traditional wet felting, hybrid felting and needle felting. They use felt that's made by hand and by machine. Through work that's remarkably eclectic, they are demonstrating how over the past few decades, the materials identity has changed.
Felt has been in use across Central Asia for thousands of years. Believed to be one of the earliest man-made materials, it arose during the Neolithic period and was indispensable to nomadic cultures like the Mongols, who used it to make items as varied and necessary as saddles, boots and circular tents called yurts. Among nomadic cultures, felt was also worked into colorful patterned carpets, tent bands, bags, and clothing. Many of the modern artists using felts reference these societies in their work.
Felt Objects - Part I [1]
Title: Felted Memories III (2009).
Title: Felt Striation (Screening Room Doors, 2006).
Title: Rosette Acoustic Wall Panel (2006).
Title: Embracement #036 (2004).
Title: Sumi Series: Flare Coat (2008).
Title: Teddy Skull: Ursulus disneyus solicitudo (2008).
Title: Red Craters (2009).
Title: Grey Corollarium (2009).
Reference:
[1] Susan Brown, 500 Felt Objects, Editors Note. Mornu and J. Hale, Lark Crafts, an Imprint of Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. (2011).
