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Hanging, Structures and Surfaces
This is a Hanging. It was designed by Ursula Suter and made by Ursula Suter. It is dated 2008 and we acquired it in 2009. Its medium is merino wool, silk and its technique is felted, fiber mat pleated before felting. It is a part of the Textiles department.
Ursula Suter began experimenting with felt in 1997 and undertook a more serious study of the technique at the Ballenberg Museum Course Center in Switzerland (2002–04). Her first solo exhibition, Felt Skins, was held in 2002 in Zürich. She has participated in numerous group shows in Europe and has been an annual participant in the International Felt Symposium.
Suter begins with gossamer sheets of wool batting. With a needle and thread, she gently pleats, tucks, or ruches the fiber into folds. Each fold must be covered in plastic to prevent it from felting to the background. When she proceeds to the wetting and agitation stage, which together cause felting, the folds are transformed into standing ridges and rippling surface textures. The aforementioned technique is unique to this artist.
Enhancing the Textile department’s collection of felt is a priority, and Structures and Surfaces is of particular interest to the museum’s collection because it combines felt-making and dressmaking techniques, particularly pleating. This type of hand-manipulation has a strong and diverse representation in the collection, in everything from 19th-century whitework embroidery with smocking and pin-tucks to Issey Miyake's heat-pleated polyesters from the 1990s.
This object was
donated by
Ursula Suter.
It is credited Gift of Ursula Suter.
- Textile, Felt Lace X-Change
- merino wool.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2010-3-1
- Bless You Chair
- wool felt, gelatin.
- Gift of Louise Campbell.
- 2009-22-1
- Winged Vessel II Vessel
- wool felt, bast fibers, leaf, urushi lacquer.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 2009-41-1
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Panel, Fluid Green
- wool.
- Museum purchase through gift of John Pierpont Morgan and Mrs. Hamilton Fish....
- 2008-17-1
- Door Panel, Palace Yurt
- center: bleached jute burlap, wool, silk roving; border: recycled coffee....
- Museum purchase through Exhibition Funds.
- 2010-14-1-a/c
- Sidewall, Blanket/Zigzag
- wool blend ground with stitched stripe.
- Gift of Maya Romanoff.
- 2009-37-1
Its dimensions are
H x W: 140 x 40 cm (55 1/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Cite this object as
Hanging, Structures and Surfaces; Designed by Ursula Suter (Swiss, b. 1950); Switzerland; merino wool, silk; H x W: 140 x 40 cm (55 1/8 x 15 3/4 in.); Gift of Ursula Suter; 2009-24-2
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Making Design and Fashioning Felt.
