(SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE WOOL FELT ARTIST, YIN YUE, SAYING: "When I was making this piece, every time I held it, I would imagine what my baby in my belly would look like. It felt like the piece ...

France is known for its perfume, Italy for its leather and Scotland for its whisky, to name a few famous exports. One that may not be as well-known is Kyrgyzstan and its wool. In the Naryn and ...

Susannah Weaver’s Long Island City studio almost looks like a test kitchen. There are heaps of icy-pink and baby-blue wool that appear to be cotton candy, five-gallon buckets of licorice-black dye ...