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Event: Blossom & Bloom Workshop Tomorrow- Feltmakers North – Lisburn

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Image from the Feltmakers North via August Craft Month website


As part of August Craft Month,members of Feltmakers North are facilitating a short workshop, creating felted flowers.  The venue is Lisburn Library, Lisburn, County Antrim, and the event is free.

Experienced felt maker and Feltmakers North member Deborah Woolsey, will deliver the workshop, assisted by fellow Feltmakers North member Deirdre Gallagher. Enjoy learning about wet felting, a fun and hands-on textile craft combining wool fibres, water and friction to create unique and beautiful pieces. Participants will have the opportunity to make a wet felted flower to take home.

All materials provided. Please bring a hand towel and plastic bag for taking your piece home.

When: Friday, the 16th of August.

Feltmakers North are a group of feltmaking enthusiasts aiming to promote the art of felting, by sharing knowledge, skills, ideas and support in a relaxed and friendly setting. Everyone welcome.

This workshop is suitable for adults and is free of charge, but must be booked in advance by emailing feltmakersnorth@gmail.com.

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Event: Celebrating Handmade – Craft Market and Demonstrations – Enniskerry – Co Wicklow

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The Wicklow Craft Foundation is holding a craft market this weekend featuring ceramics, glass, textiles, leather, wire sculptures, and bookmarking. Miriam Brady will be there with her felted artwork, and she and some of the other makers will demonstrate their craft.

Where: The Schoolhouse for Art, Enniskerry Village, Co Wicklow.
Date: Saturday and Sunday, 17th and 18th of August 2024
Time: 10 AM- 4:30 PM

This event is part of August Craft Month, a celebration of craft organised by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland and Craft NI. August Craft Month is an all-Ireland event with over 400 activities.

For more information about the Wicklow Craft Foundation, visit their website – https://wicklowcraftfoundation.ie/about

To search for more events, visit the August Craft Month website – https://augustcraftmonth.org/events/

Correction: Miriam Brady will be unable to attend the event due to a death in the family. Our thoughts are with her. Other makers will be holding demonstrations.

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Feltmakers Ireland aims to share information about awards, education, events, exhibitions, and opportunities that you will find interesting. Our sharing is neither paid for by nor an endorsement of these individuals or organisations.

Contact Us: If you have any concerns about content, please email us at feltmakersie@gmail.com.Questions: For questions about content, please follow the link to the organisation involved in hosting the event.

Opportunity: Share at August Craft Month 2024

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The Design and Crafts Council Ireland and Craft NI invite makers and craftspersons to register their events for this year’s August Craft Month.

What a maker chooses to share is up to them.

Here are some ideas:

  • Craft Talks and Trails
  • Open Studios and Exhibitions
  • Workshops and Demos
  • Meet the Maker Events

August Craft Month 2024 is for makers, communities, families, collectors, and enthusiasts across the island of Ireland. Event applications are welcome from the following:

  • Individual craft makers
  • Guilds and networks
  • Galleries, retailers and museums
  • Councils and arts centres, cultural venues
  • Further and higher education institutions and crafts educators
  • Heritage organisations

The deadline for registering your event is Friday, June 14th.

For more information and to register, please visit their website – https://www.dcci.ie/whats-on/dcci-august-craft-month/

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Feltmakers Ireland aims to share information about awards, education, events, exhibitions, and opportunities that you will find interesting. Our sharing is neither paid for by nor an endorsement of these individuals or organisations.

Contact Us: If you have any concerns about content, please email us at feltmakersie@gmail.com.

Questions: For questions about content, please follow the link to the organisation involved in hosting the event.

News: Tamzen Lundy Wins Award

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Reposted from Tamzen’s Instagram-

“So this happened! Thank you, @craft.ni and curator and guest judge Annie Cattrell, for the “emerging maker award”!! That’s my ‘are they serious, did I hear that right?’ face… and the picture secretly snapped by my mentor and friend @veramcevoy …

A gorgeous exhibition, Pathways, in the heart of Belfast… a wonderful shop too full of great goodies for Christmas and birthdays, supporting local makers… I wish every county in Ireland had a hub of support like this one!

Thanks again for the recognition; so proud and delighted… it’s not often a wee piece of textiles gets to share the platforms with ceramics, glass and jewellery … but there you go. Happy days.”

To see Tamzen’s original post or compliment her, visit her Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tamzenlundydesigns/

@TamzenLundyDesigns

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Tamzen Lundy

Workshops: Feltmakers North Wet Felting Taster Sessions

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As part of August Craft Month, the Feltmakers North guild offers two free wet felting taster sessions for adults on the 11th and 18th of August. No booking is required.

Location: The Lisburn Public Library, Co. Antrim.

For more information, see this event page – https://craftni.org/augustcraftmonth/wet-felting-taster-session/

Exhibition: ‘Pathways’ at Craft NI Gallery

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This year, applicants were invited to respond to the theme of ‘Pathways’, whether this was interpreted as a series of connections, reflections of travels or environment, experiences or actions, a personal journey or a journey in making.

Two members of Feltmakers Ireland have pieces in the show: Tamzen Lundy and Karena Ryan.

Exhibiting makers include:

Adam Frew, Adele Pound, Anne Butler, Elizabeth Johnston, Fiona Kerr, Heather McFadden, Irene McBride, Karen Hamilton, Karena Ryan, Lauren Scott, Maya Todd, Neil Marlow, Patricia Kelly, Patricia Millar, Patrick Colhoun, Pennie Metcalfe, Red Earth Designs, Sam Gleeson, Samantha Moore, Sandra Robinson, Sarah Cathers, Scott Benefield, Shauna McCann, Sue Cathcart, Tamzen Lundy Designs, and Tracey Johnston.

The exhibition runs from the 3rd of August to the 15th.

For more information, visit their website – https://craftni.org/event/pathways/

Piece by Feltmakers Ireland member Karena Ryan.

“When I Grow Up” – Hand stitch and beading, free motion embroidery with Irish linen onto vintage Foxford woollen blanket.

Exhibition: Tamzen Lundy has art in ‘Pathways’

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The Craft NI gallery on Royal Avenue, Belfast, launches a new exhibition this month as part of
August Craft Month, an all-island promotion of craft and design.

Exhibition: Tamzen Lundy has art in ‘Pathways’

The Craft NI gallery on Royal Avenue, Belfast, launches a new exhibition this month as part of August Craft Month, an all-island promotion of craft and design.

The exhibition is entitled “Pathways” and runs from the 3rd of August through the 15th.

Tamzen Lundy (previous chairperson of Feltmakers Ireland and now full-time practising textile artist and teacher) has a very personal piece selected for this month-long exhibition.

Her piece is called “Extinguished”. This piece represents the number of children, minors and young people that were killed during “The Troubles “in Northern Ireland. Innocent lives quickly extinguished.

Each life is represented by a lit match, burned bright but short. The ground fabric is wet felted 100% wool, representing the earth and land. Then all is encased between this wool and a shroud of lightweight silk chiffon, representing the ethereal, precious and fragile life and beyond.

The matches are connected by a red linen thread, each knotted and linked together. “The Red Thread that Connects” is an Eastern concept of connectedness, pathway or destiny.

The piece is 85cm x 85cm (Wool, Silk Chiffon, Linen and Wooden Matchsticks).

The work is also supported by a video piece showing the lighting, burning, and the extinguished matches as they pile up over time.

Tamzen was born in Belfast in the late 70’s, and this sense of place often informs her work.

Previous pieces, such as “The Ballymurphy Precedent”, have been shown with Feltmakers Ireland as part of their international exhibition in Finland in 2018. More recently, her sculptural piece “Bridges not Bombs” was shown in Phoenix Park in 2022.

Tamzen is a textile professional with 25+ years’ of experience. She has worked on all sides of fashion retail, design and manufacturing. Since 2020 she has focused her time on her own arts practice, describing herself as a felt maker and textile artist.

Her commercial work is playful and inspired by stories and the Irish landscape; this is sold in several small independent retailers across our Island as well as direct.

More information about Tamzen, as well as workshop dates, can be found on her website – www.tamzenlundydesigns.ie

EXTINGUISHED by Tamzen Lundy

Event: August Craft Month 2023

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August Craft Month returns to all of Ireland!

Feltmakers Ireland and several members are holding workshops and open studios this year.

Arranged in calendar order –

  • See textile demonstrations and exhibitions at the Textile Journey Festival in the Orangery of Marlay Park, Dublin, from the 31st of July through the 3rd of August. For more information, visit their website – https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/textile-journey-festival-tickets-630361607537
  • As part of ACM, visit Niki Collier is hosting an Open Studio in Marlay Park. Come and discover her womancave home to 50 scissors, 100kg of wool and 100 meters of silk. Saturday, the 5th of August, 10 AM – 4 PM. For more information, visit her website- https://www.nikicollier.com/
  • Con’s Creations Craft Shop has a creative workshop for needle felting a picture to create your own landscape in wool on the 5th of August. She also has a 3D felting, making toadstool, mice and little critters on Sunday, the 15th of August, in Castledermot, Co. Kildare.  Call for information, 087 2870971
  • As part of ACM, visit Juliane Gorman’s Open Studio in Dundrum, Co. Dublin, and see the tiny shed where she creates her whimsical hats. We’re going to make some felted rocks with Irish wool, too! Sunday, the 6th of August, 11 AM – 4 PM. For more information, visit her website- https://felthappiness.com/blogs/news/open-studio-make-a-felted-stone-august-craft-month
  • Interested in learning needle felting? As part of ACM, Jenni Kilgallon has three classes for adults and teens on the 11th at 3pm, the 17th at 5pm, and the 23rd at 11am. Located in Bray, Co. Wicklow, the classes are held in the bookshop Tales for Tadpoles. For more information, visit her website – https://talesfortadpoles.ie/collections/needle-felting-workshops.
  • More ACM Fun: Tamzen Lundy is running a Beginners Feltmaking Taster Session on Sunday, the 20th of August, from 1-4 PM at Brookwood Pottery in Marino Mar, Fairview Dublin. Only 4 places are available, at €60 each, all materials provided. Secure your spot on her website – https://www.tamzenlundydesigns.ie/services-1
  • Lastly, there is an Open Studio for Feltmakers Ireland on the 20th of August from 11 AM – 3 PM at the CIE/Sports Hall, Inchicore. At this family-friendly event, we will share how to felt a flower with Merino wool and also instruct how to do some intrepid felting with Irish-raised wool. Don’t miss the chance to browse or purchase our recently published book, ‘Exploring Irish Wool for Feltmaking’.

More Felt-Related Events

If you select ‘Textile Felt’ within ‘Craft Type’ of the August Craft Month website, there are three pages of Felting-Related events happening all over Ireland!

If you’re a Feltmakers Ireland member, let us know if we have missed your August Craft Month event.

For more information on ALL of the events, visit – https://augustcraftmonth.org/events-2023/