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 ...

Needle felting is a fascinating craft that allows you to sculpt wool into intricate designs. Using a barbed needle, you can felt wool fibers together, creating everything from simple shapes to complex ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

THE theory of felting of wool in fabric form developed by Speakman and his collaborators 1 postulates that under the repeated application of pressure the unidirectional migration of wool, due to its ...