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Verona Tessile 2015Last weekend I went to Verona on a ‘mission’ to visit the textile festival which was being held for the third edition in the Italian city.Let me tell you right away that the idea of organizing a travelling textile fair hosting …
Felt never ceases to amaze me. There are so many uses for it, and you can find different ones at any latitude. That is obvious if you think about it, since felt art dates as back as the third millennium b.C. While researching textile art, I found out…
Let’s get started with the new 14.5 micron woolHi everybody, here I am once again to tell you all about my 3 days at the workshop.As you surely have seen, last week (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) we organized 2 nuno felt workshops taught by Cristi…
Felt Fever or survival….?Well, I have to admit that despite my much lauded experience in the textile industry, I had a completely distorted idea of felt. Therefore, entering the DHG family has opened a new world to me, not only on a human level, bu…
14.5 Micron Merino Wool Tops. A Dream. Online Starting Today.Whenever someone has come to visit us over the past few months, and there have been many, we’ve had them test out this new product and the reactions have always been so enthusiastic that …
Our adventure into the world of needle felting continues so here we are, as we promised a few weeks ago, to present you with two more videos starring Ruth Packam.While the first video was only intended to be a quick introduction to this technique and…
Ruth Packham – The Queen of Needle Felting and a Wonderful New Friend!After the success of our tutorial with Gaia Girard, we told ourselves that we simply had to do an encore and do a tutorial on needle felting.That is how we came up with the idea to…
Bergschaf e Maori. Almost Love at First Sight.Every once in a while I spend a day in Prato at the DHG headquarters. I find any excuse to linger in the warehouse: the sight of all those hues and those shelves adorned in multi colored wools makes me ha…
How to felt the prefelt, planning and organizing your work:choose your materials and prefelt in the desired colors;create a design and plan for your project;plan out each step of the project.Before beginning a project, it is always best to create a t…
At point we can definitely claim to have a large and international extended family. Leena (Sipilä) and Sirpa (Mäntylä) are absolutely an official part of that family.By now they visit us quite frequently, sometimes purely for fun but often also to…
Gauze and Etamine,100% Made in Italy… Have We Gone Crazy?At this point it has been 6 months since my friend Francesco (who is probably one of the best textile designers in Prato) and I threw ourselves into this adventure, and now I can finally pres…
Diana Nagorna belongs to the fashion world: runway shows, beautiful models, professionals at work ensuring that every detail corresponds to her enchanted and sensual vision of femininity.Diana studied at the Donetsk State School of Art and later at K…
