As part of the Material World Summer School the Ark (Cultural Centre for Kids in Temple Bar in Dublin) is offerings “a fantastic opportunity to young people to learn fun new skills working creatively together looking at the earth, playing with natural fibres and making a magical large scale felt piece.  They will be able [...]

What a great Summer so far.  Our Drop In sessions have concluded until September but have a look at the Drop In page for the list of exciting topics we will be covering over the next year. We are also expanding to include a Drop In day in Bray once a month. Sharon Wells will [...]

There is a wonderful felt exhibition in New York at the moment for anyone lucky enough to be there. For the rest of us we can feast our eyes on the website: http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/Fashioning-Felt/ The exhibition is called “Fashioning Felt” and has brought together some of the most innovative felt artists around the world. If you click [...]

Wow – what a week-end! The sunshine and smiles all around were a great help to all the hard working volunteers who looked after our colourful stand at Bloom this year. Over 55,000 people attended the event and most of them came into the craft tent to get out of the heat – or so it [...]

Members of Feltmakers Ireland took part in a fundraising event in Kilmainham to support efforts to raise money for Crumlin Children’s Hospital. We had a stand with a display of felt items and demonstrations of feltmaking on Sunday 24th May in the Hilton Hotel in Kilmainham and despite it being a fabulous sunny day there were [...]