The Weird Wide Web 16 Sep 2006 06:00 pm

Pezziunici

I’ve played around with some ideas for felt jewelry, but I came nowhere near dreaming of anything like this.

Simona Catapano and Elena V. Targioni are the designers of Pezziunici. “Everything is created by them and is original: Hats never before thought of, dolls with assorted expressions, puppets to hug, bags in shapes of animals (or animals in shape of bags) and all with a pinch of irony.”

My favorites tend to be the impossible rings:
This one is made out of felt. Most of it's about a centimeter thick, I think, though it's hard to tell from the photo; if you wore it, it'd protrude about six inches from your hand. The main body of it is a soft wedge-like form, more U-shaped than V-shaped, in the mottled green of dried moss. On top of the wedge is a silly stylized bird, basically a soft-cornered triangle with enormous eyes and a dark floppy teardrop of a tail, stuck on with bowed wire legs. There's a round cutout at the base of the wedge for your finger, and another one higher up in which a pair of musical notes have been delicately strung. It is absolutely absurd and friendly.This one is even harder to describe! It's a V-shaped wedge of that same mossy green, with the ring hole at the bottom. The top of the wedge is curved into horns, and at the end of each horn is planted one end of a curved wire, so the whole thing defines an oval. Inside the oval is a little stylized bird with big red-rimmed eyes and little red-rimmed wings. But if you look at it another way, those horns might be arms, the wings might be ears -- then it looks like a friendly forest goblin jumping rope.

via Fieltromanía

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