The Craft
The process is slow, tactile, and deeply personal, influenced by a background in dance and a love of quiet, intentional spaces.
Crafted in small batches with a focus on sustainability and thoughtful design, our pillows, vessels, and home objects are made to bring calm, texture, and quiet beauty into the spaces where life unfolds.
The Artist
Michelle Fleet is a self-taught fiber artist from the Bronx, now based in Brooklyn. She founded Suri & Caya in 2016, drawing on her two decades as a dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Her years of movement, travel, and collaboration continue to shape her instinctive, sculptural approach to fiber.
For Michelle, felting echoes dance - structured improvisation, rhythm, and a sensitivity to form. The process is physical and meditative, with fibers intertwining like choreography, building shape and harmony through touch.
Working with natural materials such as alpaca, sheep’s wool, yak, camel, and silk, she creates textiles that balance intention with spontaneity. Much of the alpaca fiber comes from her family’s ranch in Washington state, offering a rich palette of natural textures and tones, occasionally accented with bold color for added energy.
Through this practice, Michelle captures the vitality of movement and the quiet elegance of nature. Her work reflects her community, curiosity, and ongoing exploration of what fiber can become.
Michelle Fleet is a self-taught fiber artist from the Bronx, now based in Brooklyn. She founded Suri & Caya in 2016, drawing on her two decades as a dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Her years of movement, travel, and collaboration continue to shape her instinctive, sculptural approach to fiber.
For Michelle, felting echoes dance - structured improvisation, rhythm, and a sensitivity to form. The process is physical and meditative, with fibers intertwining like choreography, building shape and harmony through touch.
Working with natural materials such as alpaca, sheep’s wool, yak, camel, and silk, she creates textiles that balance intention with spontaneity. Much of the alpaca fiber comes from her family’s ranch in Washington state, offering a rich palette of natural textures and tones, occasionally accented with bold color for added energy.
Through this practice, Michelle captures the vitality of movement and the quiet elegance of nature. Her work reflects her community, her curiosity, and her ongoing exploration of what fiber can become.
Jade’s Farm
The alpacas at Jade’s Farm in Central Washington are an important part of our story. Their gentle nature and exceptionally soft fleece provide many of the natural fibers used in Suri & Caya pieces.
Raised on open pastures with clean air and a mild climate, the alpacas produce hypoallergenic, renewable fiber known for its softness, durability, and naturally varied tones. Using their fleece supports a sustainable, ethical process — one that values the animals, the land, and the craft.
Their fibers carry the quiet beauty of where they come from, and it lives on in every piece we make.
The alpacas at Jade’s Farm in Central Washington are an important part of our story.
Their gentle nature and exceptionally soft fleece provide many of the natural fibers used in Suri & Caya pieces.
Raised on open pastures with clean air and a mild climate, the alpacas produce hypoallergenic, renewable fiber known for its softness, durability, and naturally varied tones.
Using their fleece supports a sustainable, ethical process, one that values the animals, the land, and the craft.
Their fibers carry the quiet beauty of where they come from, and it lives on in every piece we make.
