Our Mission
To build a global community with wool-based textiles using participatory experiences with diverse groups to foster intercultural understanding through traditional nomadic felting processes.
We are committed to amplifying the voices, stories, and philosophies of Indigenous artisans, and encouraging awareness in art, science, and history while celebrating Felt collaboratively as a traditional and contemporary living art form and enduring social fabric.
Header photo credit: Mongolian Felt - stitched, Janice Arnold, 2008.
Kyrgyzstan, 2001
Maya Lin Ecliptic, Grand Rapids Art Museum 2010
Kyrgyzstan 2001
Janice Arnold and Aizhan Bekkulova, Kazakhstan 2022
Kyrgyzstan 2001
Making Social Fabric, Olympia Armory, WA 2023
43 degrees N x 76 degrees E, A. Kasteyev State Art Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Janice Arnold, 2022.
“Feltmaking offers a universal metaphor for our times. Wispy individual fibers of wool felted together - with many hands working - create a strong textile.
Like the Felt, we become stronger working together.”
- Janice Arnold
The FELT Road is based in the Historic Grand Mound School in Centralia, Washington, USA.