Yuli Somme Felt Maker

I make full use of the simplicity and beauty of wool. I love the primeval, skin-like quality of felt and work with machine and hand-made felt. Wool is abundantly available locally and I am interested in the huge variety of breeds, which give us such differing wool qualities.

"If you have to make a thing, you must know the background of it, the skeleton, the foundations, the actual stuff that the materials have grown out of, their connections with their natural background, their biotechnics - and then building can begin. And then the reason for making, the purpose, the human connection. All sides must be considered and known. You cannot just make."

from Hand Weaving and Education by Ethel Mairet (Faber & Faber 1952)