weird and woolly

Welcome to our page of weird and wonderful items found on the web on or about wool, sheep or Wales. Be warned. Some are quite unusual. The rather unsettling image below is taken from a horror film called Black Sheep.

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Bennetton Wool Animation

Animated wool reacts to sound. An installation for a Benetton fashin show at Pompidou.

 

Posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:31AM by Registered CommenterEifion Griffiths | CommentsPost a Comment

These animations are getting weirder and weirder

created by: Ali Soozandeh, B&W, Germany 2003

Posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 12:10AM by Registered CommenterEifion Griffiths | CommentsPost a Comment

A creepy film about wool

Japanese filmmaker Mai Tominaga’s award-winning fantasy feature WOOL 100% combines live action, animation and puppetry to explore the darkest reaches of human nature.

Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 11:57PM by Registered CommenterEifion Griffiths | CommentsPost a Comment

the BMW GINA Light - the future in fabric

I had to include this even though it’s not about wool. It is about the use of fabric and I think it’s absolutely beautiful. If it could run on water as well we’d all be happy.

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Does a car’s skin always have to be made of metal? For crash behavior, stability of the body and other parts of the structural base we have long been able to do without it.

The world has never before seen anything like the BMW “GINA Light” Visionary Model. It is a car whose bodywork is no longer made of metal, but whose body is surrounded by a closefitting dress made of high-tech fabric. The vision for the car of the future has taken concrete form in a two-seater Roadster with all the proportions characteristic of the marque.

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An extremely hardwearing special fabric is stretched over this metal structure.

Joints are a thing of the past – and when the doors swing upwards, the dress, which is stable in form and made of water-repellant hybrid fabric resistant to both cold and heat, forms distinct creases.

Individual elements of the substructure are arranged to be flexible; they are able to change their position as required, controlled either electrically or electrohydraulically, and can give the “skin” a new form. The result: The vehicle adapts to different requirements. The headlamps are hidden in a crease and the fenders are sometimes flat, sometimes drawn up like shoulders. Sometimes a spoiler rises up over the trunk like the taut muscles of a tiger about to pounce.

Posted on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 02:45PM by Registered CommenterEifion Griffiths | CommentsPost a Comment

An old friend at Islay Mill making tartans

Godon Cavell was a manager here at Tregwynt some 25 years ago. He left to run his own mill in Scotland on Islay (where the whisky comes from). I found this video on the web. It’s great to see what he’s doing now.

Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 03:48PM by Registered CommenterEifion Griffiths in , | CommentsPost a Comment
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