Wet felting is a fun, hands-on craft that does double duty: It can entertain the little ones while providing last-minute gifts for the holidays. Children and novices can tackle the easiest project: ...

You could be forgiven for assuming Aliman Esenalieva is overheated. The 60-year-old textile artisan is sitting cross-legged on the floor of a felted yurt on a sweltering 90-degree June day just ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using a long needle, Chinese artist Yin Yue diligently pokes a piece of wool onto a pink-purple elephant made out of wool felt in her studio in Beijing. She stumbled into wool felt art about a decade ...

Each week, this series shares Marion-Made! stories of our many wonderful people, places, products and programs in the greater Marion community. To read more stories of Marion’s great people, places, ...

Whether tigers or tortoises, field mice or feathered peacocks, artisanal creatures are a celebration of life itself. By Ligaya Mishan WITH EACH STAB of the needle, the fibers catch, twist and snarl.

You know what’s cuter than regular Pokémon characters? Fuzzy Pokémon characters! Beloved Pocket Monsters look even more adorable in felt. Needle felting is, as Craftsy explains, “the process of ...

WHEN a mass of loose wool or fur is rubbed in presence of an aqueous solution of acid or alkali, a felt is produced because the surface scale structure of the fibres causes them to migrate in the ...