Felt in nature in Marnadal, Norway
-and felting of a  "Kepenek" for the theatre "Riddersalen" in Copenhagen.

Photoes from the project "Felt in the nature" (see the article about the project in the menu under articles). All the felted things are still out in the nature and they have now survived a winter. The big troll has become thinner and it needed some restauration. Aslaug has now added one more animal, a heron,who is walking around near the "nix" in the meadow.

Aslaug and I together with the big troll

The troll is felted around a tree trunk and I have used tre and a half big sacks of wool for it.

Troll on a birchstump

Long black felted strings with points of other coloures.

The nix in the elv felted of long black wonderfull spelsau wool.

The witch is on her way to be placed in the wood.

Norwegian TV on a visit.

This felted coat has been made for Jytte Abildstrøms Theatre in Copenhagen. The play it is made for is an old folktale about a feltmaker. I made the coat together with Katrine Hamman, and the inspiration comes from the traditional "kepenec", in which the herd can sleep in the nighttime and keep warm.

The flowers are prefeltet and then feltet on the kepenec, and the stalks of the flowers have an important roll in the play, because a message is written with them. Look left of my right hand, where it says "befri" which means release.

The coat is, like the traditional kepenecks felted in one peace without one seam. It took us fourteen days with planning, feltsamples, dying and felting.

This is the exiting moment when the kepenec is tried on to see if all our shrinkingtests have worked, and they did, so we were shouting loud of joy.