The Nuno Technique

The technique I mainly use in making lightweight and supple felts is termed "Nuno".  By manipulating wool fiber through a sheer woven fabric I am able to make felted fabric with characteristics very different from traditional heavy-duty felts used for yurts, rugs, and industrial parts.  Colored fibers blend and flow into each other, producing complex layers of shape and color that provide depth, subtlety and movement.

Blankets Nuno felting offers endless possibilities for transparency creating surprising surface designs, diverse texturing by way of layering materials that creates a finished piece with great multi dimensions.  Because of this watery process, the design often turns out slightly different from what might be expected.  This makes the work very exciting and prone to happy accidents!

I enjoy working with wool because it is a renewable resource and a healthy component of a sustainable ecology.  Ninety percent of my felt work has been created from recycled wool, in fact it was once a large tapestry commissioned for a downtown bank and then later given to the University of Oregon and hung in Lawrence Hall for over a decade.