The “Paris Design Week” started this week. It highlights creators and craftsmen. At the Joseph gallery is the exhibition “oh my wool! There we met Jenny Braeckman, the founder of “Mö créations felted”. His creations bring a poetic wind to decoration. She also mixes wool with other natural fibers such as wild silk. Unique pieces that connect us to nature.
It’s a need to start creating because there’s a new idea that I want to know how to express and bring out in the form of a new object.
So speaks Jenny Braeckman, feltmaker, craftswoman, founder ofMö felted creations.
“ The origin of the brand name dates back to the period of my studies in archeology. I met, in the books, a Finnish textile deity whose name began with Mo, the rest is not pronounceable because I do not know the language, but this word represented purity, whiteness and saw that it was a textile deity that corresponded to the fact that I use wool. »
Jenny Braeckman, born in Limoges, grew up in the countryside, close to nature. A nature that feeds its inspiration. She joined a school of visual arts and continued with a course in applied arts. After his baccalaureate, object design seemed too limited to him; she then studied art history, archeology option. Jenny Braeckman likes to find the mark of what happened between her fingers, fascinated by the gestures of potters, she works as a ceramologist. After a few years in this profession, she wanted to rediscover the material and it was then that she encountered felted wool and its artistic and poetic possibilities.
“ Felt makers often have sore shoulders because there is a very physical relationship to the material. It can be trodden, sometimes stirred. It’s very physical, and the way Atsuko Sasaki, a Japanese felt artist, was working, it was a more sensual approach. It took much longer, but the result was much more finished, more controlled and above all there was greater respect for the body and the material. It became like a wool massage to get her where I wanted rather than a confrontation. From from this new way of working with wool, i tried to make a finer and finer felt to obtain the lightness and transparency visible in my pieces. There is also a huge personal work. The creation is continuous to go even further with this material, to bring it towards more finesse, delicacy with shapes that are out of the ordinary, or what can usually be seen with wool felt. »
Jenny Braeckman opens her studio in 2019. The work of wool is his creative medium. A work in several stages: demanding, tactile and sensitive.
“ The work is in several parts: the work of developing the patterns; that of the laying of the wool itself, then the work of felting the wool; there is the removal of soapy water by rinsing; after rinsing, there is drying; once the pieces are dry, starch is applied; this starching must dry, and then the piece goes once again into a finishing phase. »
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