Sometimes children s crafts can feel redundant. Materials like poster paints, construction paper and glue sticks tend to lead to predictable results. For a kid-friendly project beyond the usual, try ...

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 ...

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 ...

Needle felting is one of those cool crafts that can yield incredible, lifelike masterpieces—or fuzzy, misshapen blobs of wool you pretend were intentional. This post from r/Needlefelting features both ...

Felt isn’t just for kindergarten anymore. Acclaimed, award-winning felting artist Rachel Benson teaches felting classes to kids, teens, and adults in Leominster, Groton, Harvard, and other towns in ...

Acoustic panels and other architectural elements can be made in complex 3D forms using a robotic needle felting process developed by researchers at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban ...

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.

They are set for 5 to 8 p.m. on Jan. 12 and 26 at Wisconsin Makers, 200 E. Clay St. Attendees — beginners to advanced felters — may work on needle or wet felting or both. They may attend one or both ...

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 ...

From reindeer and hedgehogs to robins, Anxiety monsters, and poor ol’ Willy, the use of felt in animation has taken on a whole new energy in recent years. While some point to Emma de Swaef and Marc ...

For much of her first career, as an information technology specialist and computer programmer in the Midwest and Northeast, Lanette Freitag dreamed of owning a farm in her father’s home state of ...