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About me:
I’m excited about pairing contemporary design with traditional craft skills. My favorite raw materials are wool, clay, and chicken eggs.
MFA Textiles, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
BA Studio Art, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
About wool and felt:
Wool is a fiber with many miraculous capabilities - it is naturally moisture-absorbent, fire-retardant, sound-absorbing and self-extinguishing!
I create my own hand-processed felt and use industrially-produced varieties. I enjoy the natural textures and colors of various types of wool, so my felt work is mostly un-dyed and 100% natural sheep wool.
The process of transforming raw wool from fleece sheared from a sheep's back to a material ready for use in garments or shelter dates back millennia, and centuries-old practices are still in place today. Wool is processed by both hand and machine into many forms including yarns, felt, and woven fabric.
Wool felt is a unique form of textile because it is a non-woven material. Felting occurs when the scales on wool fibers become interlocked and densely matted together. The fibers can become entangled with the application of heat, water and soap (wet felting) or with the use of barbed needles (needle felting). As a result of these interlocking fibers, felt is a material which does not fray, and can be cut, sewn, laminated, and machined.
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