Crafting WomenÕs Stories: Lives in Georgian Felt represents a unique cultural collaboration between artists in the Republic of Georgia and the United States. The authors, who are educators and artists at the Center for Book and Paper, Columbia College ChicagoÕs, travelled to Georgia to lead workshops in the towns of Alvani, Napareuli, Telavi and Akhmeta that combined felting, a regional craft, with exercises in using felt to make expressive, artistic objects, especially one-of-a-kind books.