Felted Scarf Workshop

$42.00$57.00

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Description

A one-day workshop. Creation of a felted wool scarf (wet technique, using water).

After a few basic notions about wool and ancestral felting techniques, participants will learn how to correctly lay down the fibers to ensure uniform felting of their scarf. Demonstrations followed by the step-by-step creation by each participant of a pre-felt and then a felted wool scarf. Each participant will leave with a scarf and a few tools with which to continue experimenting.

Level: beginner

Location: Chalet Jean-Chénier, 615 Chénier Street, Gatineau (Aylmer sector)

Date: Saturday May 24, 2025

Time: from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, with a pause for lunch

12 people maximum

Coût pour les membres : 42 $ (coût pour les non-membres 57$)

The wool needed and most of the materials needed for felting wool (reference notes, veiling, bubble wrap and plain plastic, etc.)will be provided and payable to the instructor ($50) at the day of the workshop. à l’instructeur lors du cours.

After registration you will receive an e-mail, where you will be asked to choose 2 colours of wool for your scarf and a list of materials to be brought along will be provided (such as aprons, etc.).

The instructor: Denise Bernard: I have been interested in textile fibers since childhood. After a period of integrating textile fibers with watercolor, I have been practicing felting for around fifteen years (needle felting, wet technique felting and nuno felting, which incorporates wool and other fibers on a wooden support). fabric, usually silk). I am particularly interested in what we call wearable art. 

Classes in French, but can interact in English.