Wool painting and felted pictures 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 explore the amazing wool painting technique with a professional Artist and Art Tutor Raya Brown. This is not felt making. The unique technique involves laying and shaping fibres, cutting and manipulating them to achieve beautiful images, vibrant textures and watercolour effects. This is a workshop for anyone. The complete beginners as well as people with some experience in...

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 pictures but any of the techniques below are achievable with a bit more rubbing. 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 learn? You will...

Felting and free motion machine embroidery workshops. Learn how to create watercolours in wool! Crafts in the Valley offers textile and fused glass workshops at the Creative Chameleon Studio in Cragg Vale, Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire. Full day workshops start at 10.30am and finishing at approximately 4.00pm. In this full day workshop you will have the opportunity to experiment with a range of textiles skills including wet felting, needle felting, hand embroidery and free motion machine embroidery. By the end of the day you will have created a beautiful piece...

June 18th only 1 place 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...

A fun day workshop suited to complete beginners. Experiment and explore felt-making with a variety of wool and plant fibres using different techniques to make a colourful textural felted picture. With fibre and mixed media artist and tutor Josephine Gornall. Lots of felt making samples to look at in my studio where the class is based, followed by a practical demonstration of felt-making. Then make one or two, pictorial - seascape, landscape, floral or abstract felted peices. Select from a wide choice of gorgeous coloured wools, loads of plant fibres,...

Fun with felt flowers gives beginners all the basic information to learn felting around a resist. In the three and a half hours, students will make two different flowers, using different techniques, along with different centres. Workshops start at 10am. I can teach up to nine people here and I can also travel within 20 miles if someone wants a group of friends (minimum 5 participants) in their own house or school. Fabulous idea for a hen party! Please note, though, I do charge mileage. If you have a larger...

We now open from 12 April. I have put some available dates in but please select 'message the tutor' to check with me first to see if they are still available (life has a habit of getting in the way!). Our needle-felting workshops usually start at 10.00 am with an introduction to the tools and methods used in producing the pictures. This is followed by working on a miniature moorland picture using Merino wool fleece. We then usually have a break for coffee and danish and then continue with a...

Beautifully intricate patterns can be woven with metal links, and this class will show you the basics to get started with chainmaille weaving. Using rings made with your choice of silver or gold-plated wire, you'll learn to make a gorgeous helmweave bracelet. Enjoy a relaxed and friendly atmosphere and a cup of tea (and biscuits, of course!). Suitable for complete beginners, you will be guided through every step by Wendy, owner of The Little Craftery, and life-long crafter. The workshop runs for approximately two hours. Enjoy a chat with like...