- Aya Matsunaga：
After studying product design two years at Saga Art University in Kyoto, Aya Matsunaga moved to Nottingham, England to learn Knitting/Textile. That was when she discovered a felting process that was not so familiar in Japan at the time. She focused on learning this technique and adopted it into her own creations. In 2003, after working in the fashion-textile industry, Matsunaga started producing her own work at her home atelier. Since her first visit to India in her teens, her inspiration sources have largely been taken from trips, maps and sceneries inside and outside of Japan. Her main work is “Wearable Art”. It is created by using felted knit fabrics that are made from wool/cashmere yarns.
- KNIT-FELT
“Felted knit” can be categorized as a luxury material concerning the “extra” finishing process of fulling. Because the knitted item itself can be already presented as a finished product. Since the fulling process will change the texture and impression of the original fabric very much, it is said the most exciting moment will be when one takes the fabric out of the washing machine after the process is done.
The artist knits with multiple dyed fine wool yarns and completes by fulling the fabric. This is how very complex colour mixtures can be made and this is why the work will obtain an artistic flavor. Despite the characteristic form and novel/ colour mixture, her shawls and accessories fit amazingly to one’s outfit without being eccentric. 
2020
3月7(土)〜29日(日)世界で一枚だけのシャツ展
ギャラリー サラ 滋賀7th Mar - 29th Mar 2020 Gallery Sala 2019
11月9日(土)-15日(金)松永彩 フェルト展&Tamaki Niime 冬
ギャラリー 遊風ら里 広島9th Nov- 15th Nov 2019 gallery Yufurari Hiroshima 2019
8月27日(火)〜9月15日(日)#フォトジェニックワーク 展
ギャラリーにしかわ 京都27th Aug-15th Sep 2019 Gallery Nishikawa Kyoto "Photogenic Work Exhibition" 2019
1月17日(木)ー23日(水)ニットだからできる幾何学 松永彩展
ギャラリー +クックラボ como 南青山
東京都港区南青山4-7-7 TEL.03-3470-001917th Jan- 23th Jan 2019 gallery+cook lab como 2018
9月12日(水)-18日(火)阪急うめだ１０Fスーク中央パーク 大阪 12th Sep-18th Sep 2018 10F Souq Hankyu Umeda Department store Osaka 2015
12月1日(火)ー13日(日)ギャラリーにしかわ 京都 knit knit knit 展 (企画展) 2015.12.01〜13 Gallery Nishikawa Kyoto "Knit, Knit, Knit exhibtion" 2015.
11月21日〜29日ギャラリー遊風ら里
ラファエルナバスカレンダー展にミテーヌなどの小物が参加いたします。2015.09.25 - 10.24 "Tasty Colours" at Silk Weaving Studio Vancouver, Canada 2015.09.26-09.30
Time: 10:00～16:00
sold outKnitting, Fulling , Felting 5 Days workshop at
Location: MAIWA East 1310 Odlum Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*workshop infomation
*Maiwa Textile Workshops - course calender2015.10.01
Time: 7:45pm
price: $15.00MAIWA textile symposium Aya Matsunaga Knitted Felt works
For more information visit www.maiwa.com
*Lecture scenery
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