Design Blog | Janice Arnold Sketches | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

felt! “with natural locks @ back”! i have always been interested in medium; in the art i make or enjoy i’m attracted to natural materials like silk, cotton, wool, and wood; and i try to use these kinds of things in place of plastic and metal in my life/art wherever possible. but i had no idea how viscerally, sensuously appealing it would feel to be surrounded by felt. especially felt with woolly locks coming out of it.

somehow, i’m going to recreate one of the panels of the palace yurt as a curtain in my room. materials i am considering: silk gauze, silk organza, lightweight fusible web, and/or crocheted something or other. my project will probably not involve any actual wool felt (i’m not equipped to MAKE it), but i hope it will have the same luminous quality.

or perhaps it will be a case in which i find i’ve recreated something to the best of my ability and yet lost the magic of it.