The link to the album itself is here.

Today i received by mail my felt cuff that I bought at Etsy. I was looking very forward to receiving it, checking my mailbox anxiously every day (yes, like a kid!).
It is a real piece of art.
I sometimes wonder if I should frame it instead of wearing it! it looks like a well made watercolor, but nothing on it is tinted – the cuff was made by Vaiva Nat (check her store HERE) using the ancient process of felt making. In this process, different colors of fleece are put together and rubbed vigorously with soap and hot water. This makes the fibers interlock and stick together, producing the final fabric. I am in love with it, because it really looks like a 3d watercolor.
I bought wool to try it myself, and already did the first experiment – nothing close to my cuff, but I enjoyed learning a little about the process, and maybe I get better with time.
But this girl’s pieces are a real work of art… I wonder how she learned that! I think that felt making is more common in Lithuania, for many of the good examples that I found on the internet are from that country.
As if the piece wasn’t good enough – the packaging is super cute… the paper color matches the cuff, and so does the little tag… what a delicate thing!
Here are the photos of her work – my cuff! (better pictures of myself wearing the cuff tomorrow…)
You can visit her shop at Etsy here.

THANK YOU, Vaiva Nat!

You and Art

Your exact errors make a music
that nobody hears.
Your straying feet find the great dance,
walking alone.
And you live on a world where stumbling
always leads home.

Year after year fits over your face—
when there was youth, your talent
was youth;
later, you find your way by touch
where moss redeems the stone;

and you discover where music begins
before it makes any sound,
far in the mountains where canyons go
still as the always-falling, ever-new flakes of snow.

William Stafford