Felt Lace X-Change is a collaboration between designer Paula Verbee-Cowart and Oriole Mill. Oriole Mill was founded by Bethanne Knudson and Stephan Michelson in Hendersonville, North Carolina, in 2006. The mill offers custom woven and designed textiles with a focus on quality, rather than quantity and speed, in the production process. Oriole Mill is dedicated to making the finest jacquard and dobby fabrics from natural fibers and ultimately hopes to lead a resurgence of small artisanal mills in this once vibrant textile-making area of the country. Knudson also formed Studio Structure with Verbeek-Cowart to create their own label within the mill. Felt Lace X-Change reflects the mission of the mill in its craftsmanship and experimentation with natural fibers and also demonstrates Verbeek-Cowart’s interest in exploring the ways in which wool can be transformed. Felt Lace X-Change is a double-cloth with an open weave structure that has been woven into four “tubes.” The fabric is washed and fulled to achieve a soft, felt-like texture before it is stretched and blocked. After this step, the tubes can be cut or left whole. Both ways create a highly three-dimensional cloth that shares the soft and undulating folds of a curtain. The deceptively simple structure, pure and natural color, and fine merino wool fiber give credence to both Verbeek-Cowart’s and Oriole Mill’s goals while generating renewed hope for the textile industry in the United States.