Color and Imagery in Feltmaking
Saturday & Sunday
June 4th & 5th
$230.00 (includes lunch)
Lab Fee: $60.00 for fleece, merino quilt batting, felting needles, handouts
and use of felting equipment.
Felt is unusual because of the way the colors interact during the intermingling
process. Colored fibers can be combined in various ways through dyeing,
carding and layering to create different color effects. We will explore,
then apply the skills we learned to “paint” images with wool
in felt. With this method of inlay design, the design elements are added
using dry felting, which is with a felting needle, after the background
is partially made. After the designs are applied, the felt is then finished
by the normal wet method so that the fabric is strong and the surface
secure. Course for all levels.
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Instructor: Patricia Spark
About Patricia Spark
Patricia Spark is the author of “Fundamentals of Feltmaking”,
“Scandinavian Style Feltmaking” and “Making Faces, Using
Wet and Dry Felting Methods”. She has taught internationally
at the World Symposium of Traditional and Contemporary Felt Art (Lakitelek,
Hungary, 2004); the International Felting Conference (Tbilisi, Republic
of Georgia, 1999); the Finnish International Felting Conference (Petajavesi,
1999); and the International Felting Festival (Korrö, Sweden, 1990).
In addition, she has taught at several regional fiber conferences and
Convergences (the conference of Handweaver’s Guild of America) in
North America. She is the editor of the North American Felters’
Network, a triannual feltmaker’s publication.
