Allow me to show you some of my personal favorites of the Queen of Felt. Once you've enjoyed this lens, please be sure to check out my other lenses on felt jewelry and felt home decor as I feature a couple more of Mary-Ann's items in those lenses! You'll find links at the bottom of this lens.
Photo Credit: Rapunzel, the beautiful felt creation of Mary-Ann Williams; befitting a queen!
Rapunzel -- It's wearable felt art!
From the queen of felt, Mary-Ann Williams! Well, I certainly consider this hot new item from that cool “felt” designer, Mary-Ann Williams, as a bit of felt jewelry. It’s definitely wearable art!
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that I may climb the golden stair.
FELT hat/scarf. A unique couture fashion accessory.
- Luxury feeling
- Cocooning
- Sculptural
- Architectural
- Volume 3D-structures
- Two pieces in one: with removable scarf
- Without any stitching
- One size fits all
- Just fold together and store away
- Available in a variety of over 50 different colors.
- Vintage felt 100% pure new wool
I've emailed Mary-Ann to let her know what a BIG FAN I am of ALL her beautiful felt designs!
100% felt, pure new wool. It is a Pop Up Flower pendant or floor lamp by Mary-Ann Williams.
It’s available for the U.S. in a variety of colors. This is one of my favorite lamps of hers.
The Bloom Sandwich Light is a variety of lights.
It’s a light object that can be a pendant light or a table light.
It’s 100% felt, pure new wool.
I love the clean lines and the cute flower shape.
This is XOLO a pendant light or light object.
I love the sculptural effect.
It is 100% felt, pure new wool and glass.
Check out Buddha Acoustic – Temple of Heaven felt lights!
Isn’t this delightfully sculptural?
It’s a bit of table art. It’s Sconcigli — that sounds Italian — I’ll have to look this up to see what it means. It’s a tablemat or placemat that’s 100% felt pure new wool and it comes in a variety of colors! Check out Sconcigli Felt Daybed!
This tablemat, placemat, or table runner is rather versatile in its use and its appearance. When you flip it, it becomes a different design object! How cool. It’s Wave, a tablemat or runner, that’s 100% felt, pure new wool. Yep, it’s in different colors and is machine-washable! Check out Delicious Monster felt doilies!
It’s Bloom, a felt cup or mug coaster — or trivet. I love it!
It’s 100% felt, pure new wool.
Check out Bierfilz Origami felt pot coasters!
OMG! Look at this adorable item!!! Catch the name — It’s Hueherauge.
It’s an eggwarmer in case you couldn’t tell. But, I’ll bet you could come up with another use. The sculptural nature makes it a decorative item — use your imagination.It’s 100% felt, pure new wool, with an antistain treatment, and available in different colors. Check out Tipster felt wine bag.
The Felt Cappelletti Bottle Coat is beautiful! What a nice decorative item for keeping your wine cool.
Or, a great cover to use when gifting a bottle! It is versatile that it can be used as a vase when the bottle is empty. This item is reversible, 100% felt, pure new wool, and eco-friendly. I love it!!!
Check out Cappelletti felt cushions.
Everything you wanted to know about Mary-Ann Williams!
- She was born 1965 in Cape Town, South Africa, studied Design in Cape Town and Germany and decided to stay in Germany because of Apartheid.
- In 1984 she started using felts (felting) for fashion and hats.
- After starting with her own fashion and hats collection she later specialized in the development of textile products in the HIGH END section of interior design. Her hat designs are furious. She is a hat-architect. She has become cult object through her hats. ... as well as the hats.
- She creates home accessories, bowls, lights, table accessories, kitchen accessories, living accessories, greeting cards, bags, carpets, hats and fashion and she is advising in interior design solutions.
- Her innovative designs are gaining international interest.
- Her most recognized designs are the Flokati felt carpets which she invented. Those carpets are easy to clean, biodegradable and single felt pieces can be renewed. Those rugs found acknowledgement through a long number of awards.
- She recently received FORM, IF PRODUCT DESIGN AWARD GOLD 2004, IF MATERIAL AWARD 2005, Chicago GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2005.
- She developed a chaiselongue (daybed and carpet) made out of pure felt without any use of foam or filling material. (IF MATERIAL AWARD 2005 and Chicago GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2005).
- An international boost of recognition found her PLISSEE LAPTOP BAG which doesn´t only look different to the mass of offered bags but also includes characteristics like perfect shock absorption although being made out of one single piece of material. The conscious lack of filling material makes this bag fully biodegradable.
- She uses materials like historic and innovative fabrics, wood, synthetics, rubber, metal or paper in her designs.
- Her collections are always developed under the background of raw materials, production, duration (cleaning or repairing) and ecological aspects.
- She loves minimalism but doesn't avoid pleasures of shapes and precious decorations.
- She brings structures and 3-dimensionality into the so far known 2-dimensionality (carpets etc.).
- The difference in her work appears in long term steps of testing and improvement which makes form, function, quality and ecology a simultaneous aspect in design.
- As a natural consequence a lot of designers regularly visit her website to search for ideas. Although some of her designs were laughed at by some people in the beginning, they turn out to be trendsetting and are copied from companies and designers after a short time.
- Mary-Ann was one of the first designers working with dyed high quality wool felts. She invented the machine-washable pure new wool felt which was a big step towards quality improvement for the daily use. So far felt could only be dry-cleaned. She first came up with combinations of felt used together with other materials like metal, wood, glass or rubber etc.
- She prefers making trends instead of following them.
Check out Mary-Ann Williams' felt!
Felt Coasters and Table Mats - Some of these incorporate other elements other than felt!
Felt Light Objects - There are two separate pages of her lights--don't miss any of these!
Felt Rugs - Her rugs are quite textural, award-winning, and handmade!
Felt Table Accessories - Prepare to be pleasantly delighted by the adorable designs on this page!
Felt Flexible Furniture - Be sure to check out Sconcigli!
Felt Wall Panels - Incredible CAPPELLETTI - Filz Akustik Wall PANELS.
Felt Cushions - Check out Cappelletti felt cushions for a compelling work of art.
Contact Mary-Ann Williams - Mary-Ann Williams personal website contact information.
Illu-Stration - Illu-Stration is Mary-Ann Williams brand.
Create your own Felt Projects!
Are you motivated to try your hand at felt making? You must get this book : Uniquely Felt!
Feltmaking is the magical transformation of a loose pile of wool fibers into a durable, alluring nonwoven fabric.
An ancient process that continues to work its wonder on modern artisans and crafters, feltmaking produces a flannel-like fabric with a tactile appeal like nothing else.
In Uniquely Felt, Christine White, a professional teacher and feltmaker, describes the equipment, explores concepts and theories of felting, and thoroughly covers all felting techniques, including traditional, needle, three-dimensional seamless, nuno, cobweb, carved, and Beede ball.
History: The Queen of Felt : Mary-Ann Williams was originally created on Squidoo by JaguarJulie on August 20, 2007. Highest lensrank ever achieved: #7,421 overall.
