The first time Kristin Colombano experienced what she’ll now describe as “real” felt, in a tiny shop in Mongolia, she didn’t realize it would become her life’s work. “When I was in that shop in Ulaanbaatar, it felt really different,” she recalls, comparing the handmade material she discovered there to the craft and industrial varieties she had previously experienced. “I had a bit of an ‘aha’—I didn’t walk away going ‘I’m going to make felt now’ but that was a real changing point.” Read all about the gorgeousness that happened, here.
