A few years ago I stumbled upon felt and fell in love with it. Which would explain I guess why the house is pretty much packed to the rafters in the stuff. Not just happy with buying some felt and making things...I've gone through the process of buying the raw wool - (it stunk by the way and drove Jessie crazy) - which I still haven't used after opening the bag once and decided to put it in the too hard and stinky basket. I have rolls of pure merino wool that has been nicely cleaned and dyed. I tried my hand at making felt myself on numerous occasions just to gain an appreciation of it. Which I do appreciate and want nothing of the process of making it quite frankly. But I'm thinking next week I might write up a little tutorial for those of you who would like to know how to make it....any takers??
Anyway....felt is an ancient material, believed to be one of the earliest techniques for making textiles. Made by matting together wool fibers with humidity and friction, felting requires little technological expertise (sounds good to me) and is an extremely versatile material.
I've found amazing things made of felt. One item that I was shown by my felt distributor was this amazing chair carved out of very thick felt. I've search and can't find a photo, but have found some other really great chairs made of felt that I love.
Images: Peacock chair produced by New York studio Dror for Italian furniture manufacturer Cappellini. Bless You chair. Designed and made by Louise Campbell. Denmark, 1999. 10mm technical felt and 750 sheets of gelatin. Joseph Felt Chair 2 designed by Lothar Windels. FF1 Chair by Fox and Freeze (not actually a wool felt but synthetic felt but very cool)
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