Twelve foot high white felt curtains with embedded white silk hang in Janice Arnold's studio/laboratory in Centralia, Washington. Once a schoolhouse, the studio has a central atrium with high ceilings where the handmade panels hang. The richness of the white wool in juxtaposition to the diaphanous white silk evokes a vaguely celebratory mood. Originally Janice made the curtains as samples; the panels with round panes of silk were experiments for an installation at the Lumber Room in Portland, Oregon and the diamond patterned panels were probably made as samples for the Palace Yurt, which was part of the Fashioning Felt exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York last year, and will appear at the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design October 22.2010 through February 20.2011.