FELT MAKING
Felt-Making with Winchester
Artist Andrea-Arengo Jones
To make a beautiful felted piece from a picture of your choice. You bring the picture we provide the know how.
You will learn the basic skills and techniques for creating a unique picture using wet felt techniques.
The day will cover:
1. How to construct a piece of felt by laying out fibres, felting and fulling .
2. How to combine coloured wool to get vibrant colours
3. How to incorporate other fibres into the felt to create shine and texture
Make a felt bag You will learn techniques for creating 3d objects such as hats, bags and slippers The day will cover: 1. A recap of basic felt techniques 2. The use of flat patterns to make 3d objects 3. The use of 3d objects as moulds To make a small nuno felt/ silk scarf You will learn the technique of nuno felting. The day will cover 1. What fabrics are suitable for nuno felting 2. Basic nuno felt techniques 3. Making a small nuno felt scarf
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Meet the tutor
I am inspired to make my art by a very personal response to the things I see around me. I make one off textile pieces, screen prints and colographs. I am obsessed with layers. Layers of life in the sea, layers of colour in rock strata, layers of life in a city and the way each layer interacts with each other. I often use felt as a base for my work so I can build layers of colour and texture with different fibres such as mixing the dullness of wool with the natural sheen of silk, or adding pieces of different fabrics to create little pools of colour. Every time I overlay a colour or texture it changes the nature of what is underneath. My latest works have been motivated by the destruction of habitat and wildlife from the amount of plastic we have allowed to find its way into the sea. As a child on the beaches around Cornwall I found shells, as an adult on those same beaches I find plastic. Now, on my more local Solant beaches, bottle tops, discarded nets and empty shot gun cases are the things I see most regularly. I discovered recently thanks to radio 4 that the shotgun cases come all the way from China where they are used to shot colonies of seabirds.