It’s hard to work with industrial felt and not be asked about references to Joseph Beuys, the German fighter pilot turned famous postwar artist that worked with many materials, but was especially known for his art made with felt and fat…

As a viewer informed by Western art history, chances are that Joseph Beuys comes to mind when you see grey industrial felt presented in an art gallery. But, Maria Hupfield puts a crack in that canon with her approach to this material…

Over the course of a year, one piece of felt per day was photographed in various applications showing the range of ways that felt can work around the house and home…

THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOCKEY
Inspiration is found in a harness shop…

RURAL LIVING
On the horse and around the hearth…

INUIT CULTURE
Nivinngajuliaat: felt stories from the North…

AMERICAN INFLUENCE AND AFFLUENCE
Cars, white-goods and poodle skirts…

THE MILITARY
Ordnance and ornament…

INDUSTRIALIZATION
Where there is steel, there is bound to be felt…

FIRST NATIONS
A museum artifact tells a story of oppression and survival…

A STORY OF IMMIGRATION
To the Prairies where felt is good for the sole…

WINTER BOOTS
A Cold War in which felt meets rubber…

WILDERNESS TIPS
Felt filters, lines and insulates…

HATS
Canadian classics, and how some indigenous folks stick it to the man…

PELTS AND FELTS
A vagary of fashion that brought prosperity to a nation but destitution to native life long before Confederation…

INTRODUCTION

A collection of stories that uses felt objects to illustrate aspects of Canadian history from the fur trade though popular culture…