These works emerged from an eight-month research and development grant awarded by the Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center, where I explored the possibilities of the FeltLOOM needle felting machine alongside ISAIC’s other industrial capabilities. At the heart of this research lies a series of questions: How might hand-making processes and industrial processes speak to one another? Where does craft end and production begin? In what ways can the presence of the hand complicate or enrich the perception, desirability, and longevity of an object?

These quilts are hand-arranged and then machine felted using the FeltLOOM machine. All materials were sourced locally.