Nebula Felted Wool Coin Purse

$26.00 USD

Color Sunset Violet Crimson Cobalt Fuchsia Marigold

100% New Zealand Wool
Open pasture, naturally soft, cleanly spun, and extraordinarily resilient.
Individually Hand-Sculpted
Wet-felted and needle-detailed so no two pieces are identical.
Naturally Fresh & Durable
Breathable, odor-resistant, and easy to spot clean.

Description

Colour with no edges anywhere on it.

The design is laid before the felting, not after. Loose coloured fleece is set down in a burst radiating from a centre point, and then the whole thing is wet-felted — and felting does not leave colour where you put it. As the fibres lock together they migrate, dragging each colour a little way into its neighbour. Purple walks into orange, pink bleeds through teal, and every boundary turns soft because the two colours are now physically tangled rather than butted against each other.

That also means it cannot be repeated. A painted design can be copied exactly; this one is partly decided by the wool while it shrinks.

The small dark dashes scattered across the surface are the counterweight. They are slivers of contrasting fibre that resist blending and stay sharp, and they are the only crisp marks on the whole purse. Without them the field would read as mud rather than light.

Six colourways, each with a matching felted ball on the zip:

Sunset — orange and purple with a lime core.
Violet — magenta through purple into teal.
Crimson — deep red, moss and plum.
Cobalt — electric blue shot through with pink.
Fuchsia — hot pink against teal and green.
Marigold — orange and purple, with an orange pull.

Metal zip along the top. The back is a single solid colour, which is the whole point — all the noise is on the front.

Made from New Zealand wool.

New Zealand wool, wet-felted with the colour laid in before fulling.
Slivers of contrasting fibre for the dark dashes.
Solid-colour back.
Metal zip with a matching felted wool ball pull.

Surface design laid before felting, not applied after.
Loose coloured fleece is set down in a burst radiating from a centre point, then the whole piece is wet-felted. Felting does not leave colour where you put itas the fibres lock together they migrate, carrying each colour a short way into its neighbour. Purple walks into orange, pink bleeds through teal, and every boundary turns soft — because the two colours are now physically tangled rather than butted up against one another.
That is also why it cannot be repeated. An appliqued or painted design can be copied exactly. This one is finished partly by the wool itself as it shrinks, and the maker only controls where it starts.
The small dark dashes are the counterweight, and they are the one deliberate piece of control on the surface. They are slivers of contrasting fibre that resist blending and stay sharp through the fulling, so they remain the only crisp marks on an otherwise edgeless field. Without them the whole thing would read as mud rather than as light.
The back is left a single solid colour. All the noise is on the front, which is what stops the piece looking busy in the hand.

Pure New Zealand pasture wool naturally repels dust and light spills thanks to its dense, organic fiber structure.

Day-to-daya soft brush lifts dust. The surface is flat with nothing raised on it, so a lint roller is safe here in a way it is not on the appliqued purses.

Spot cleaningblot with a barely damp cloth and dry fully open so the zip tape dries too. Never soak and never machine wash — these colours are already sitting in direct contact with one another, and water would carry on the blending the felting started.

Sunlightkeep it out of a sunny window. Half a dozen saturated colours sit side by side here and they will not fade at the same rate, which shows faster on a blend than on a flat shade.

Reshapingif it flattens in a bag, press it back with your fingers while empty.