France is known for its perfume, Italy for its leather and Scotland for its whisky, to name a few famous exports. One that may not be as well-known is Kyrgyzstan and its wool. In the Naryn and ...

Seven years ago, Jenne Giles was a San Francisco painter and sculptor who didn’t know felting existed. Now she works almost exclusively in the medium, stretching the possibilities of felt in fashion.

Liam Lee’s designs often look like something that could come from the concept drawing for a futuristic sci-fi film. He sculpts furniture and dimensional textiles from brightly colored wool he hand ...

A river of fabric? Janice Arnold’s installations, inspired by the people of Central Asia, go to great lengths to evoke wonder Though stationary, fibers of different colors and textures are combined in ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Forget the lion or the lamb. This morning, March came in like a flying pig. Yes. All those things you said you’d do “when pigs fly” now have to be done. Okay, it was a pig made ...

Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. These days, I’m not spending very much time outside. Instead, I’m focusing on making ...

IN Mongolia, felt-making is a communal affair: women and children beat freshly sheared wool with sticks and sprinkle it with water, then horses drag it through a field. It’s a centuries-old tradition ...

Susannah Weaver’s Long Island City studio almost looks like a test kitchen. There are heaps of icy-pink and baby-blue wool that appear to be cotton candy, five-gallon buckets of licorice-black dye ...