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Charity Van der Meer and her wearable feltCharity Van Der Meer. What a felt maker! And what a woman! I had the opportunity to meet her here at DHG last year, when she taught a course at our headquarters, and I was blown away by her vitality and her f…
Once I started experimenting with the wonderful Mulberry silk laps, ideas on how to use them started popping up in my head one after the other, and I realized that possibilities truly are endless. And trust me, I experimented a lot and had a lot of f…
It was fun to work with the Mulberry silk laps, and I am very happy with the result. With my work, I have tried to answer a question: why should one use the Mulberry silk laps for a piece? So here are my thoughts and suggestions. I hope you’ll find…
Select resume of Shelley JonesIntroductionProfessional artist, working with felt, glass beads, wire, and fine silver/precious metal clay (PMC) since 1997HistoryBorn in Detroit, Michigan, trained and worked as a graphic artist for 18 years, specializi…
Maria Friese is a felt designer that those who follow us know very well. Indeed, Maria has taken part in our DHG Charity Project 2015 (you can see the gallery of the works she made for our project).I also interviewed her when we presented our Cha…
Ruth Packham felt makerRuth Packham is an old friend of DHG’s. Indeed, we have collaboratad with Ruth for three video tutorials about needle felting.If you have never watched them, or if you want to refresh your memory, these are the videos: Needle f…
Andrea Noeske PoradaAndrea Noeske Porada is a German felt maker. Her approach to felting is truly original. Indeed, Andrea uses a special technique which allows her to realize complex two-dimensional surfaces, as well as three-dimensional soft sculpt…
Since my post in which I gave you some suggestions on how to work with carded wool was so successful, I was asked to give you some tips on working with combed wool, too.As you will see, many of the aspects that I will discuss apply not only to comb…
After the course about carded wool that I taught here at DHG a few days ago, I was asked to write a blog post about this technique.They asked me to give you a few tips, so here I am try to write down the many small suggestions I usually give my stude…
Eva BasileTo us, Eva Basile is the Lady of Felt, a nickname which lets you immediately understand how good she is at felting and how deeply connected she is to this material.Eva was born in Florence and grew up among illustrated books and artworks. S…
Marjolein DallingaMarjolein Dallinga is Dutch felt-maker. She moved to Canada and that’s where she now lives and works.Before discovering felt, Marjolein expressed her creativity primarily through painting. However, as soon as she found this century…
Catherine O’Leary is an Australian textile artist and feltmaker. Currently living in Melbourne, Catherine has extensive experience in this sector. In fact, she has been expressing her talent working with felt since 1990, refining her manual manipul…
