You expect to see cozy cashmeres and soft shearlings on the fall runways - but felt? This most utilitarian of textiles, mostly associated with fedoras and furniture pads, has gone posh. Fashioned into ...

Repeat, one yard at a time, for hours. Yes, it’s time intensive, but the colors are so vibrant they make fingers itch for needle and thread to move through the satisfying weight of felted wool fabric.

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 ...

IN Mongolia, felt-making is a communal affair: women and children beat freshly sheared wool with sticks and sprinkle it with water, then horses drag it through a field. It’s a centuries-old tradition ...