Szaniszló Judit
A few years ago we moved to this suburban settlement, Tinnye from the downtown Budapest. We have built a quite big and nice house, the kids arrived, the school is a few blocks away, I went there to teach drawing and Hungarian literature. Then, in a handicraft study circle, I tried how to make felt.
After the daily rush, I made carpets and pillows just for fun. Winter came. My head was cold. The cap is not feminine enough, the hat is too hard, so I tried out whether I could create something of felt, in-between the cap and a hat. I started with several pieces, I wore them to test. Later new ideas emerged, my products were varied. Others have liked them. I started five years ago.
„The “nuno felt” (“nuno” means cloth in Japanese) is a novel and special material. It is thinner and finer as the regular felt what we know. I work with tape-form wool, what is different to the fur wool; the difference is in the carding. This novel felt is worked on silk, so it is very thin, but shape-retaining, and warm garments can be produced of it.”
„I buy merino wool of Australia, dyed by myself. I like to combine it with threads, beads, silk, silk fibre. I make things for use: hats, stoles, jackets, skirts, and maybe curtains. Perhaps I am a fashion designer diverted.”
„I started to make vests and jackets like the hats. I wanted to create something nice for the children and for myself. To make the first, I need a week. „
„The felt contracts the silk, so the structure becomes blistering. You need not pattern, just a rough template, nearly twice as large as the final piece. It starts from this huge size. Having no seams, all is felted together, I can form it continuously.”
„She lays silk on a cut foil where she wants to maintain the form, then she spreads the wool bunches, sprinkling with soap and water, all in multiple layers. Crumpling all, then she shakes it in warm water.”
„Laying again, then forming with soap and water, rolling and shaking, until the fine fibres clog together, the material becomes agglomerated, shrinking to the due size. The unique, custom-shaped dress, you may say, an eternal garment. Strong, unbreakable, always looks good.”
The Hungarian Institute in Prague invited her to exhibit first. It was an occasional encounter, but since then, she took part in several folk art events, and is represented on the major craft fairs. Natural materials returned fashionable, traditions revitalized. “ It feels good when I meet my hats in the city”.
16/3/2011 Tinnye
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