Feltstudiomedia is FELT’s social media handle as well as this blog about the material and culture of felt with a focus on manufactured felt for its modern history, recent proliferation in art and design, and because this is the stuff from which FELT projects are made.
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My Joseph Beuys Story
It’s hard to work with felt and not be confronted by refences to Joseph Beuys, the German fighter pilot turned famous postwar artist that worked with many materials, but was especially known for his art made with felt and also fat…
365 Pieces of Felt: A daily post around the home
Pieces of felt are adapted to everyday life in applications that are often humorous, but always functional. See how felt works…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 12
THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOCKEY
Inspiration is found in a harness shop…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 11
RURAL LIVING
On the horse and around the hearth…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 10
INUIT CULTURE
Nivinngajuliaat: felt stories from the North…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 9
AMERICAN INFLUENCE AND AFFLUENCE
Cars, white-goods and poodle skirts…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 8
THE MILITARY
Ordnance and ornament…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 7
INDUSTRIALIZATION
Where there is steel, there is bound to be felt…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 6
FIRST NATIONS
A museum artifact tells a story of oppression and survival…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 5
A STORY OF IMMIGRATION
To the Prairies where felt is good for the sole…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 4
WINTER BOOTS
A Cold War in which felt meets rubber…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 3
WILDERNESS TIPS
Felt filters, lines and insulates…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 2
HATS
Canadian classics, and how some indigenous folks stick it to the man…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Part 1
PELTS AND FELTS
A vagary of fashion that brought prosperity to a nation but destitution to native life long before Confederation…
Beaver Hats to Hockey Pads: A Social History of Felt in Canada: Introduction
INTRODUCTION
A collection of stories that uses felt objects to illustrate aspects of Canadian history from the fur trade though popular culture…
The Art of Maria Hupfield
As a viewer informed by Western art history, it’s hard not to think of Joseph Beuys when presented with grey industrial felt in an art gallery. But, Maria Hupfield puts a crack in that canon with her approach to this material…
Free Flow Feltro
Feltro brings new meaning to the principle that form follows function. The debut product from this Toronto-based design company is a series of modular tiles of bright coloured felt singular in form yet infinite in possibility—It’s a game, it’s a structure, it’s a costume, it’s a sculpture!...