Emma Jackson (Silversoles - Felted Textiles)

Contact Name: Emma Jackson

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129 Hazelhurst Road
Kings Heath
Birmingham
West Midlands
B14 6AG

Emma Jackson (Silversoles - Felted Textiles)

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About Emma Jackson (Silversoles - Felted Textiles)

Emma is an experienced textiles tutor and artist who specialises in making felt. She has over twenty years experience teaching, designing and making felt for her award winning textiles company, Silversoles. Emma enjoys teaching and feels it plays an important role in her practice.

Emma Jackson (Silversoles - Felted Textiles)'s Courses

Felt lampshades

Felt lampshades

West Midlands - Next course on 19th September 2020

An opportunity on this two day course to create a unique piece of home decor to complement your home and learn two new skills - Feltmaking and Lampshade Making! Day One -: Using native breed or merino wools with additional fibres such as silk, linen and exotics like angora you will design and make a piece of felt fabric. You will learn how to lay out the wool and other fibres and apply wet felting techniques to bond the fibres together. At the end of the first half day session...

Fissures II - nuno felted scarves

Fissures II - nuno felted scarves

West Midlands - Next course on 25th April 2020

Inspired by the Icelandic landscape, this workshop focuses on making a nuno felted scarf by creating fissure patterns and complex surface textures. During my visit to Iceland in 2019, I was struck by the juxtaposition of the rugged landscapes with the fragility of the environment and precarious existence of life on the island. As a result I have been exploring these aspects of the Icelandic environment by fusing felted wool and silk fabrics. Taking this inspiration I have designed this workshop in which we will explore how to create pre-felt...

Landscapes in wool - painting with fibres

Landscapes in wool - painting with fibres

West Midlands - Next course on 4th April 2020

Learn how to 'paint' with 'fibres' to create a picture; abstract or realistic of a landscape or animal for a wall hanging or piece to frame. You will create your fibre painting using wool and a selection of yarn, fabrics and other fibres which you can later embellish further with stitch and/or needle felting. During the workshop we will; *Discuss how to create perspective, focal points, balance and composition *Examine your landscape/animal images & the sketches you have brought *Plan how to translate your design ideas into felt *Sketch &...