Felt arts courses, craft kits and handcrafted gifts

Come along to the Magic Wool Art and Craft Studio to make this lovely and colourful wool fibre picture. Enjoy the therapeutic experience of working with natural wool and silk fibres and continue exploring the amazing wool painting technique with a professional Artist and Art Tutor Raya Brown. This is not felt making. This is making a painting using layers of merino wool and enhancing it with silk or viscose fibres. This is a workshop for people with experience in wool painting. You do not need to be an artist...

Wet felting Barbara has many years of experience in teaching all areas of feltmaking and demonstrates the techniques so that even the absolute beginner can achieve a fabulous piece of art to take home. Although she recommends starting with the lovely woolly pictures to start with but any of the techniques below are achievable. Wet felting and needle felting are techniques for binding wool and other fibres together. Barbara encourages you to be experimental and add gorgeous fibres such as alpaca, silks, hemp and even husky hair. What Will I...

Discover the wonderful art of needle felting at this fun and friendly half-day class and learn how to create wonderful 3D animals! During this class, I will share with you a wide range of tips and techniques as you learn step-by-step how to make your cute animal or picture! In half a day the items that are achievable are: Penguin, bird, mouse, hedgehog etc ......please bring an image, copy one of my examples or be inspired by one of my books. To begin, you will create a 3-dimensional form from...

Experimental felt-making day-course covering basic flat felt and Nuno techniques: Designing and making images and patterns, pre-felts, layering and all you need to get started as a felt maker! You will be shown how to design your own pattern or picture from an image or source of your own choice (don't worry if you haven't got any ideas, I've got lots of books and samples to inspire you) for either a wall hanging, cushion, scarf, or piece of fabric to be later made into something such as a bag or...

Jan 22nd only 2 places left Where a workshop is full or fixed dates don't suit - gather together a group of 2-4 and get in touch for a flexible date and time just for you. If you are a school or community group please contact me as workshops and inset days are priced separately. You will be guided through how to lay out the fibres to make a flat piece of felt as well as using carders to blend colours. Then using the reference material you have brought with...

"Field with red poppies" wool painting interactive online course with live tuition. (Suitable for Complete Beginners ) Wool painting or wool watercolour, as some people call it, is a unique relatively new technique which originated in St. Petersburg. This is not felt making. It is about creating a fibre picture using merino wool, silk and viscose. Laying and shaping fibres, blending the colours together, creating beautiful textures and effects with a professional Artist Raya Brown is a great experience for complete beginners as well as people with some knowledge of...