Her world does not contemplate needles and scissors. Agostina does not sew: she unites. Agostina does not produce: she creates.
Her world does not contemplate needles and scissors. It winds and unwinds around a thread that is not just raw material, but also a relationship.
It is the thread that ties different sensibilities, perceptions and intuitions together, making them into one story bursting with many differences. It is the experience of a common “feeling”.
Agostina does not sew: she unites.
Agostina does not produce: she creates.
She loves to put together what has been damaged. Soothing, warming, wrapping.
Even a tear is useful to her purpose: it is breaking the rule, the subversion of order in favour not of dis-order, but of Harmony.
Her prime preoccupation (which we can identify with) is to propose a new “perception” of the world.
Agostina Zwilling, a felt-fashion-artist committed to spreading the ancient art of felt making in modern couture, is the founder of the Italian Felt Academy. The school is situated in Verona, Italy, with courses and workshop ranging from basic to advanced level. Teaching languages are Italian, English, French. For more information, visit www.italianfeltacademy.it
Interview by Laura Molteni
Agostina, on the right, at work Agostina with one of her Nuno felt creations Second body by Agostina Zwilling
Some beautiful works of her students
Gioia Danielis
Petra Bachmann
Daniela De Carlo
