floccus

It always excites me to find a material that is utterly appropriate for a job. This wool is spun here in Fiskars by Eeva-Kaisa Ailus, a textiles artist and inhabitant of Fiskars Village. It's beautiful stuff. A natural brown-grey. Perfect. If you're going to make a piece of work using yarn, from a drawing originally created in a particular location, exploring a subject that seems to be significant to that place and its occupants, then it seems only right and proper that the material you produce it in also comes from that area…