Reiko Sudo, director and co-founder of NUNO, an innovative Japanese textile manufacturer, described wanting to experiencing the feeling of “flamboyant floating” through this work, Feather Flurries, an evocation of softly falling snow. Woven as a double cloth, the fabric combines two distinct layers that intersect at specific points. The pockets created by those intersections are filled during the weaving process with individual feathers salvaged from waste generated by the food industry. The loom was stopped repeatedly to allow a worker to hand-insert a feather into each pocket between the layers of fabric. Sudo’s self-defined search “for beauty, for mystery, for a heightened awareness” led through the combination of computerized looms, reclaimed feathers, and human hands to Feather Flurries.