Felt: Dynamic Patterning
Felt was an exercise in taking a product from conception to production. The final products were shown and sold for a month at an ecologically conscious home goods store, Home and Planet in Bethlehem, Pa. The only constraint was a material restriction. Each product had to include felt in its construction. To obtain the material in a sustainable way, felt off cuts were gathered from Aetna Felt in Allentown, Pa. I worked to develop both hats and scarves which utilized a concept of expanding material by perforating the felt. The hats have two offset perforated layers and are reversible.
In the designing of the felt hats, different cutting patterns were designed and tested both functionally and aesthetically. These experiments eventually resulted in the creation of laser cut scarves.
