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The travelling exhibition Soul of Felt is going to be hosted at the DHG headquarters from January, 20th to February 24th. There are going to be works from Russia as well as other Easter European countries. The journey started off in Germany, in the t…
THEME OF THE CLASSIn this workshop, you are going to explore different techniques to learn how to handle fibers and pre-felt in order to obtain, during the felting process, truly extraordinary surfaces. You are going to be working with different blen…
The Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi PecciThe Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci was a project started in the early 1980s by Enrico Pecci, Knight of the Italian Order of Merit for Labour.At the time, architect Italo Gamberini was a…
Textiles are the slogan of Prato. But the city hosts many artistic gems that you really must visitToday we are once again going to talk about our city, which on one hand is off the beaten path, away from the masses of tourists, overshadowed by Floren…
Marjolein Dallinga’s exhibition in Prato
Marjolein Dallinga, the renowned Canadian fiber artist, has chosen Prato for her first solo exhibition.Indeed, Marjolein Dallinga will be a guest at Museo del Tessuto in Prato to show her felt works: 14 tex…
Zoë Williams is a fiber artist who specializes in needle-felting. She was born in New Orleans and currently lives in New York. It seems that the word ‘new’ is recurring in Zoë’s life, and I believe that also her signature style is characteriz…
Tra Arte e Moda (“Across Art and Fashion”) is the title of the new exhibition being held at the Museo del Tessuto until February 19th 2017, in collaboration with the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo. Edoardo and I were the specialist correspondents for th…
THEME OF THE CLASSMany consider eco-printing as an evolution of the traditional methods of natural dyeing. However, while for the latter you mordant the fabric and then you put it into a decoction of plants or into a bath of dyeing extracts, in the e…
Shelley Jones was born in Detroit, Michigan, and is the sixth felt artist to take part in our DHG Charity Project. She has been working with felt, beads and precious metals since 1997. She has been shaping these materials with her own unique creativ…
THEME OF THE CLASSDuring this course you are going to study the sculpting techniques with wool and other fibers. You will be exploring different techniques, so you can become more aware of how and why to use this means of expression, focusing on basi…
THEME OF THE CLASSThe workshop will focus on the development and exploration of techniques to created textile surfaces ideal for created coats/jackets. Charity will teach you how to create structures and surfaces by using multiple techniques and mate…
THEME OF THE CLASSInspired by Origami Artists like Paul Jackson, Eric Gjerde and others, Andrea Noeske-Porada will guide the participants through the process of creating intricate felted three dimensional constructions and foldings for jewelry and s…
