Felt United exhibition gallery is online!

Remember International day of felt and Felt United project? Well, finally its gallery is online and you can look at the photos of felt events all over the world here.

Is felt fashionable?

Felt felt felt...we see and hear this word pretty often right now as felt is living its renaisance to my subjective opinion on these days. But weird enough, some still think that felt is an old fashioned textile or suited only for village people or Russian nation...
Looking for a proof of felt as fashionable in fashion field, one could look at the runways of world famous designers and definetly find felt there:

Calvin Klein, RTW Autumn 2009:


Yohji Yamamoto, RTW Autumn 2009:


Fendi, RTW Autumn 2009:


Stella McCartney, RTW Autumn 2008:

photos via style.com

And if you look even further, you can find such designers as John Galliano , Donna Karan, and Christian Lacroix using felt in their collections long time ago. So perhaps felt is not something that we could call fashionable today - doubted tomorrow. Perhaps felt is permanent - like classics.

Some more example of use of felt in fashion by Dutch designer Alexander van Slobbe in collaboration with Dutch felter Claudy Jongstra:

photos via orson-bodil.com

Fan page on Facebook for VK FELT created today!

Gourmandis series

Texture texture again. Sometimes felt texture resembles food so much that you just make a break while felting and go to check your fridge. When I was editing these photos, I must confess I had my mouth watering...

Book cozy "Chocolate sin cake with cookie crumb"

Book cozy "Vanilla & caramel Dobos Torte"


Cowl "Chocolate Angel Food"

Playing with textures

As I've written before, texture is one of the main characteristics of felt. And it just rocks playing with it!

Scarf "Wine and Magic"

Kerchief "Cornflower Jazz"

Collar "Autumn Tactics"

Collar "Dreams of Jupiter"

Bracelet "Dream Catcher"

Cobweb felt scarf "I will wait for you"

Cobweb felt scarf "Autumn leaves"

Cobwe felt scarf "Put your chains around me"

e c c o * e c o. Beneath the Surface Treatments

Textile artist Abigail Doan, editor of the ethical fashion and art blog e c c o*e c o, has featured my nuno felt dresses on her blog in an amazing company of designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec. Their tiles clouds are simply amazing!

And here is a full view of my nuno felt dresses - tunics:

Nuno felt dress-tunic "Sky No 9"

Nuno felt dress-tunic "Just Viltelli" (in a little ironic way)

Etsy treasuries, Etsy thoughts

I guess it's time to show some of my Etsy treasuries again. Haven't been that active at Etsy as before, but...I really enjoy it for being in a good company of other artisans, for making new connections, for just displaying your work, for...many other little things.
Lately I thought that being successful on Etsy requires lot's of effort and time... And perhaps I can not invest that much time right now and consequently can't be a real success out there, but I can still enjoy my little existance in the big ocean of Etsy.

I never like to boast and I am usually never writing about geting to Front page of Etsy or geting included in Storque articles, but this time it was just funny to see me 4X - that means included in Gift Guides and Storque at the same time. Thank you, Etsy admins!



And of course - my treasuries to follow:

Into the woods series

Finished some scarfs and collars in shibori technique for my 2009 Autumn series "Into the woods". Very organic forms and natural colours bringing you deep into the woods...

Scarf "Into the woods. Blueberry"


Collar "Into the woods. Wetland"

Scarf "Into the woods. Moss"

Collar "Into the woods. Juniper"

Felt United

So it finally happened. First International day of Felt and Felt United project has been completed! Funny, I don't feel like telling a lot about this event. Not because there was somethings wrong, vice versa - there were so many good, warm things, many mystic signs, lot's of kind hearted conversations, good impresions, feelings, consciousness, insights, lessons to learn and ideas for the future that it feels I just want to keep it inside my heart for a while, hiding and cherishing that little sparkle that makes me feel warm inside...

Yet I will say that the felted Sun we made brightened all the grey sky in there... and I will share lot's of photos of that day.



Photos by Victor Morozov
Photos by Vaida Petreikiene
Photos by Armidas Pronosovas
Photos by Kestutis Migonis
and some of my photos

And the article in Lithunian news site Delfi

Preparation for Felt United

As you might remember I blogged about international day of felt Felt United once. Finally I can announce what Lithuanian group of felters is going to make and where.
There has been lot's of discussions, many beautiful ideas, many ups and downs until we found IT. Summarizing the long path we walked: Felt United colours for this year yellow-orange-red suggested something warm, like fire, shining and bright like the Sun or stars in the sky. We also wanted to make something very Lithuanian, very Baltic... And show it in a symbolic place...
The answer to all this was - recently reconstructed Baltic Zodiac and the Sun that is going throuh all the signs during a year. You can read a very interesting article about Baltic Zodiac here and I am going to mention just the names of those signs:

1. Fishes (Pisces)
2. Sheep skin (Aries)
3. Rider (Taurus)
4. Twins (Gemini)
5. Bird of the Moon (Cancer)
6. Bird of the Sun (Leo)
7. Crane (Virgo)
8. Scales of the sky (Libra)
9. Deer with 9 horns (Scorpio)
10. Spearman (Saggitarius)
11. Goat (Capricorn)
12. Horse (Aquarius)

The installation will be made in a symbolic place - Ethnocosmological museum in Moletai, under a big glass dome with an idea that the felt installation is to be seen for people on Earth as well as the whole Universe.

Photos

Photos

There is still a lot of preparation work to be done until the opening of the installation on October 3d at 4pm at Ethnocosmological museum in Moletai but there is a little preview of the sign I was making - sheep's skin - with an idea of mythological golden wool. Dyed with plants of course :)

More details to come!