If you love the extra-soft and fluffy feel of freshly tumbled laundry, but you’re hesitant to use chemical-laden dryer sheets, wrinkle sprays, or liquid fabric softeners, felted wool dryer balls are ...

The fabric material is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together, a traditional skill which is called namad-mali in Iran. Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal ...

Seven years ago, Jenne Giles was a San Francisco painter and sculptor who didn't know felting existed. Now she works almost exclusively in the medium, stretching the possibilities of felt in fashion.

The craft called Namad-mali (“felt beating”) by the locals, involves creating Namad, which is a modest flooring. To create a felt piece, the felt maker starts by arranging colored wool according to a ...

Elyse Hochstadt works with her hands and her head, but also her heart. Serving as the executive director of the nonprofit Spokane Zero Waste for the past two years, Hochstadt is constantly thinking ...

Amarama Vercnocke shows a sculpture she makes with wool fibers in Rochester, Minn. Vercnocke urges her audience to touch her works. She "gives adults that childlike experience of touching the art" and ...

Trevor Goodwin of Andrews, South Carolina, is using an overhead hook on a motorized track to pick up bulging cloth packages and maneuver them into position. He cuts and tears open the packages, which ...