Calendar 2023
We are proud to present our full, interesting and exciting programma for 2023!
| Dates | Course | Tutor |
|---|---|---|
| 05 - 13 June | Textile and mixed media | Eke Krug |
| 20 - 28 june | Animal head and Female figurine - Needle-felting | Paulien Sijtsema |
| 01 - 10 July | Connections in Felt and Raku Ceramics | Miriam Verbeek en Els Bottema* |
| 15 - 23 July | Surface techniques and 3D experiments | Jolande van Luijk |
| 19 - 27 Aug | Handfelted Hats - Artistic embroidering on felt | Annemie Koenen |
| 29 Aug - 06 Sept | Felt and leather - Artistic embroidering on felt | Annemie Koenen |
| 09 - 17 Sept | Ecoprinting "The underwater world" | Carla van Belle* |
| 20 - 28 Sept | Felt Couture for Nuno-garments | Charity van der Meer |
| 01 - 08 Oct | Etching, painting and felting | Harm Harms |
* These courses have an extra workshop day.
All creative weeks consist of 7 or 8 full days (5 or 6 days workshop and 2 days free choice). The marked dates are arrival – and departure date, in between are the 7 full days.
For course content and prices, click on the course above.
Every course has its own list of material that you need to provide yourself unless otherwise mentioned. You will receive a material list with your reservation.
Textile and mixed media – Eke Krug
Date: 05th – 13th June 2023
Duration: 7 full days (5 course, 2 free choice)
Price: from € 1.095,- (based on full room and board, excl. materials)
From flat to 3D, How will that be?
During this course you will begin to manipulate and colour different textiles, paper, fibers and threads. Big pieces will not be necessary, small but many is better. It will give you a variety of choice during the fusion of the pieces. Then we start cutting, tearing, sewing and embroidering. The result can be figurative as well as abstract, the choice is yours. From this 2D surface we are going to try to raise it by adding 3D solutions. You will be working with different pigments and other options. The sewing/embroidering will be done by hand. In this course you don’t need to drag a heavy sewing machine along. The projects will be 25×25 at the most and can be turned into a bunch of smaller patches. The results will be surprising and astonishing.
And it will be lovely to do some outdoor sewing with good weather…
This course is suitable for all levels.
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Animal head and Female figurine Needle-felting – Paulien Sijtsema
Date: 20th – 28th June 2023
Duration: (5 course, 2 free choice)
Price: from € 1.095,- (based on full room and board, excl. materials)
Animal head and Female figurine
During this course there are the options of making an animal head and a female figure. Depending on your own speed, possibly both. If you have other ideas for your creation you can discuss this with Paulien. All will be made of 100% sheepswool (so without a mold) with several dry – and wet felting techniques.
To improve your posture during needle felting, Paulien has designed the Pin Board*. This board has a foam mat and pin cushion in a felted lined container to keep your tools. Order in advance with Paulien or via Felt and Fibers.
The size is 45 cm x 45 cm, the mat is 40cm x 30cm.
This course is suitable for all levels.
Optional:
* Simple model € 22,-
* Luxury model (with needle pad / storage tray) € 40,-
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Connections in Felt and Raku Ceramics – Miriam Verbeek and Els Bottema
Date: 01st – 10th July 2023
Duration: 8 full days (6 course, 2 free choice)
Price: from € 1.445,- (based on full room and board, excl. materials)
“Nature as inspiration”
In this workshop a connection will be made between felt and ceramics.
We start the workshop with a number of techniques in both materials.
Then we will do some research, from the photo of your choice that inspired you, what kind of connections are possible.
You will switch between the two materials and work on and off with both to discover both differences as well as similarities. You will be guided and supported by both tutors, (Miriam/felt and Els/clay).
Felt techniques that will be explored are 2D felting: making prefelt, thick/transparant felting, 3D felting: hollow forms, punching, structure felting, connecting and fusing forms.
For the ceramics we will work intensively on handshaping techniques. The clay projects will be fired at the end of the workshop in the Raku kiln. By decorating them with horsehair or other, or pitting them in a sagger fire you can achieve beautiful designs and ultimately make the connection with felt.
It is the first time for this unique fusion of these two materials to be taught in France. So interesting and surprising discoveries are a guarantee during this week.
This course and both techniques are suitable for all levels.
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Surface techniques and 3D experiments – Jolande van Luijk
Date: 15th – 23th July 2023
Duration: 7 full days (5 course, 2 free choice)
Price: from € 1.095,- (based on full room and board, excl. materials)
Surface techniques and 3D experiments
This course is a 5-day treasure hunt to find out what felt is contributing to our art and the effect ist has on us. You will be challenged this week to push back your own boundries. You will be introduced to a huge range of materials and techniques that will help you create textures and reliefs to make 3D-felt.
In this unique location, from a place of inner calm, the most surprising art creation will appear. Experience felters will also have every have every chance and opportunity to make new discoveries.
This course is suitable for all levels.
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Option 1: Handfelted Hats – Annemie Koenen
Date: 19th – 27th August 2023
Duration: 7 full days (5 course, 2 free choice)
Price: from € 1.095,- (based on full room and board, excl. materials)
Handfelted hats with modist-precision
During this course you can one or more beautiful hats. A hat/bonnet against the cold or an elegant hat for a party, there are many options.
You can work with a variety of materials and techniques. You will make the felt by hand and therefor you are completely free in what the felt will look like.
Once ready the felt will used the way the modists do, by pulling it over a hatblock. Besides that you will learn how to decorate and finish your hat, possibly combining it with free embroidering on felt.
The projects you will make depend on the amount of days you attend the course(s), your experience and speed.
Annemie’s handdyed wool/silk mix (in many colours) is extremely suitable for this course.
Option 2: Artistic embroidering on felt
You will make your own felt as the basis for embroidering. This can be a large piece or several smaller ones. You can also choose to work on your favorite embroider-stitch-book, or a memory book (or another subject of your choice), with the 14 page ringbinder, designed by Annemie, which has space for 7 felted pages.
Optional:
*Price paper ringbinder: € 35,00
*Price wool with silk: € 9,75 per 50gr
Both techniques are suitable for all levels.
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Option 1: Felt and leather – Annemie Koenen
Date: 29th August – 06th September 2023
Duration: 7 full days (5 course, 2 free choice)
Price: from € 1.095,- (based on full room and board, excl. materials)
Felt and leather
During this workshop week we will make a combination of felt and leather. Simple, unique, artistic pieces created from wool and goats – and sheeps leather.The bags will be felted, decorated and stablised with leather applications, designed by yourself. Cords and buttons will be braded with traditional Hungarian technology.
Annemie herself learned these technique from Mari Nagy from Hungary, one of the early felting pioneers.
Every participant can make her own design. And those designs make fantastic combinations with embroidering techniques.
NB: For this course there will be an additional fee of € 50,- for leather, cords and leather tools.
Option 2: Artistic embroidering on felt
You will make your own felt as the basis for embroidering. This can be a large piece or several smaller ones. You can also choose to work on your favorite embroider-stitch-book, or a memory book (or another subject of your choice), with the 14 page ringbinder, designed by Annemie, which has space for 7 felted pages.
Optional:
*Price paper ringbinder: € 35,00
*Price wool with silk: € 9,75 per 50gr
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Ecoprinting “The underwater world” – Carla van Belle
Date: 09th – 17th September 2023
Duration: 7 full days (6 course, 2 afternoons free choice)
Price: from € 1.145,- (based on full room and board, excl. materials)
Ecoprinting on wool, silk and cotton
This course will start at the basis. The first 3 days you will be working with items of wool and silk. Then after a day off we will be tackling cotton clothes. After mordanting, the clothes will be dyed with natural pigments in yellow, blue and green. The natural dye baths we will make together using ancient and proved recipes. Then you will be making samples, because practice makes perfect. After the samples you will have acquired enough knowledge to ‘go crazy’ on your masterpiece. You can use the best leaves you found during the plant rummaging excursion, on the dyed fabric and roll it into a tight bundle. The magic happens in the steampot. All natural colours will melt together in your own phenomenal, unique underwaterworld. Purely natural, pure enjoyment!
This programm of ecoprinting is a basics course. Participants with more ecoprinting experience get ample opportunity to freely experiment.
This workshop is suitable for all levels.
Extra material cost: appr. € 65,- incl. sample fabric, mardants and dyes.
You may bring your own fabric for samples.
White garments for the masterpieces can be ordered from Carla at request (one wool/silk and one coton, appr. € 40/piece).
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Felt Couture for Nuno-garments – Charity van de Meer
Date: 20th – 28th September 2023
Duration: 7 full days (5 day course, 2 free choice)
Price: from € 1.095,- (based on full room and board, excl. materials)
Felt Couture for Nuno-garments
The workshop will focus on designing and making one-piece fashionable and wearable Nuno felted garments; e.g. dresses or skirts or gilets.
You will explore the various textures and rough surfaces using different techniques and materials. You will learn how to add pleats to achieve extra float accents into your projects.
How to enlarge a normal pattern into a felting pattern using the simple basic techniques that Charity uses in her work is a very effective method that will help you to develop your own pattern template that will suit and fit you. Moreover, you will go home with a lot of new ideas.
Most importantly you will learn how to work with the direction of the wool to achieve a personalized style. The direction of the wool is very important to determine the shrinkage, the styling and the shaping of the felted finished garments. You will be astonished at the results.
This course requires a basic knowledge of felting and will be given in English.
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Etching, painting and felting – Harm Harms
Date: 01st – 08th Oktober 2023
Duration: 7 full days (5 day course, 2 free choice)
Price: from € 1.095,- (based on full room and board, excl. materials)
Etching, painting and felting
The etching in velvet is a much loved technique amongst fashion designers because of the beautiful contrast between the shiny dense velvet and the tissue of fibers underneath. In this course you will discover the different sides of velvet and utilise the field of tension between the thick, dense fabric and the transparent part for making remarkable fabrics, dishes or artistic objects.
The richness of velvet makes it a wonderful material to form the base for an extraordinary project. In this workshop you will achieve transparency in silk-velvet by using the etching technique. The selectively burning of the viscose layer exposes the silk base and our projects can be further developed with paint – and felting techniques. You will learn different methodes to etch a design. Next you will learn how you can paint the fabric in a way that the top layer and basic tissue both can have different colours. After you can use felting techniques to achieve the shape and expression you prefer.
The possibilities are endless!
This workshop is suitable for all levels.
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