The Top Hat Is Wool. So Is the Man Wearing It.
New York Times - May 28 2006
Five years ago at lunchtime one day, Pedro Genao Rodriguez walked into the kitchen of the Rudolf Steiner School on East 79th Street and saw a teacher poking a barbed needle into a mass of unspun wool, fashioning the wool into a little gnome. Mr. Genao Rodriguez, who works as a custodian at the school, was curious."She told me the more times you poke the needle, the more compact the wool becomes," he recalled. The teacher gave him a bit of wool and a needle, introducing Mr. Genao Rodriguez to the craft of needle felting.
He started by making miniature birds and snowmen. Then he made a series of six-inch-long dolls representing members of the school's staff.
By 2003, the needle felting bug had bitten Mr. Genao Rodriguez so hard that he was inspired to make the biggest wool sculpture ever. As part of that pursuit, he wrote to Guinness World Records and inquired about what he described as "The Largest Wool Doll Ever Made." His chance of setting the record was good, he was told, because no such category existed. [more]
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