Worldwide colours of felt

I am delighted that a piece of mine will be appearing in Worldwide colours of felt which is due for publication in June by Textiellink.  I am even more delighted that the piece that was chosen was dyed with madder. There are pictures of felt works from over 500 artists from 40 countries in the book. With this good news it seems an ideal opportunity to look back at how my piece was made. First I laid out white merino on a resist. Then used more resists to add wings and I also added cords. The finished vessel was difficult to dry and so I slung it in the garden used a foam roller, an old broom handle and lots of gaffer tape along with skewers to curls the cords.   Here it is straight out of the dye pot .  I had to tied it up , to make it fit…

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Felt passion 

Felt passion is a felt collection all made by German speakers collated by Ellen Bakker of Textiellink. It is currently exhibing at Meervilt in Haarlem.  The book Felt Passion is amazing and the exhibition interestingly contains some of the artists from the book , but features different work.    Last week I tried to visit with my good friend Els , but due to a suspect terrorist alert in Rotterdam staton , which cancelled all the trains for the whole morning we never made it .  This week I made it , but sadly had to go on my own. It was wonderful to see the variety of felt , large and small, 2D and 3D on display, such a huge amount of inspiration.  As usual with such event a picture cannot really capture the tiny special details or the real feel of the pieces but here are some of my favorites. …

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