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 ...

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 ...

Owners love remembering the good times they've had with their pets, whether that's taking selfies together or even buying a miniature felt version of them, as Alyson Gurney found out. Gurney, a ...

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 ...

In Ingushetiya, a new generation of women is reviving the traditional art of felting rugs. When Russian photographer Svetlana Bulatova traveled to Ingushetiya to document the felted carpets called ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Tina is the owner of My Woolever Friend, a company that makes custom portraits of people's furry friends. These pet portraits are made by needle-felting sheep wool and ...

How do you feel about Skittles? You may love them, you may hate them. But you’re probably not neutral. We have some very strong feelings about snacks. And it’s those powerful snack-linked emotions ...

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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.