Technical Workshop: Fine Felt in Wet Felting – FULL

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‘Fine Felt in Wet Felting’ – Technical Workshop with Annika Berglund

THE CLASS IS NOW FULL – Contact Annika to be added to the waiting list.

When and Where

11th of February 10:30-16:00 in The CIE Social Centre.

The Fine Felt Technical Workshop

This year, we are doing an additional workshop focused on techniques aimed at beginner and intermediate wet felters. The course aims to look at “Fine Felt”, traditionally desired in the craft of felting.

The class has two sections: a square 2D sample and a small vessel.

The Schedule

In the morning, beginner wet feltmakers will learn how to lay out wool using a 10-inch template and how to felt, full, and shrink. We will look at the graduation of colour and shrinkage rates.

A team of helpers will be available to anybody needing support.

During the morning session, more experienced feltmakers can focus on creating a very light, even layout using 10 grams of wool for a 10-inch square. We will look at how to get the densest, finest felt possible while working on creating a perfect square sample with a shrinkage of 30%, 40%, 50% or possibly 60%, depending on our speed of felting.

This may not be how we would do felting on an everyday basis. But, this session spent truly concentrating on careful felting should improve our overall felting work.

We will break for lunch. Please bring something to eat as we will only have 30 minutes.

In the afternoon, we will apply our learnings from the morning to make the finest little vessel possible. We will use a different layout (spokes and wheel), laying out 10 grams of black and white wool around a 20 cm circular resist. The goal will be to create a very thin, fine vessel, that is well-felted and sturdy.

Supplies

We will supply wool and materials for the workshop.

We will have spares, but if you have the following items, please bring them with you:

  •  One or two towels
  •  A bowl
  •  A water sprinkling brauser or similar (optional as we will have spares)
  •  Small sharp scissors
  •  Ruler with inches and cm

We will start at 10:30 on the dot as we have much to cover. Please try to be there a few minutes early to get settled in.

Cost

Feltmakers Ireland is keen to promote Fine Felting, and for this reason, we are offering this workshop at the low price of 25 euro for members and 35 euro for non-members.

Email annika AT annikaberglund.com to reserve your spot. (Remove change AT to @ and remove the spaces).

Payment Options

We have three options for payment for the Fine Felt Workshop:

• Electronic Transfer Lodgements (ETF) – bank tranfers
• Republic of Ireland cheques
• PayPal ~ we are charged a small percentage with this option*
(Currently, we have technical issues installing PayPal on our website. See below for instructions.)


Bank Transfer

When making an ETF bank payment, please include your NAME and that the payment is for The Fine Felt Workshop in the reference or description field.

IBAN: IE53 BOFI 9012 3963 6087 93 BIC: BOFIIE2D
BANK OF IRELAND, NAAS BRANCH.


Cheque

Cheques can be made payable to Feltmakers Ireland. If paying by cheque, please mail to:
Membership Secretary, Feltmakers Ireland,
113 Seafield Road East,
Clontarf, Dublin,
D03 XW30

PayPal


We prefer bank transfers or cheques as no fees are involved, but we will also accept PayPal.
*PayPal takes a per cent per transaction, so we receive less. If possible, please round up by adding 1.25 = €26.25. Non-members, please add 1.80 = €36.80 when paying with PayPal.

To pay via PayPal, use the following email: committeefeltmakersireland@gmail.com
Make sure to include your NAME and that it is for The Fine Felt Workshop.

We hope to see you there!