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Felt education + visitors at my studio |
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Written by Birgitte Krag Hansen
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
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Today a group of felt makers from the
Swedish
Folk
High School
on the island
Gotland
came to see my workshop.
For one year they are studying felt making at the school and it is probably the only full time felt education in
Scandinavia
. The students are studying felt design as well as felt art and craft. The education lasts one year and is parted in a basic part and a part for specializing.
See more on www.gotland.fhsk.se
Contact person Gunilla Östbom, tel 070-362 39 71
Gunilla Östbom, leader of the education.
Two, who like to speak together.
Happy feltmakers from Gotland Folk High School
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The doll of the month for April 2007 |
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Written by Birgitte Krag Hansen
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
I am often contacted by visitors who would like to buy dolls they have seen in the picture galleries. But all of these dolls have been made as part of projects or have been pre-ordered a long time before they were made. Due to lack of time I only make a very limited number of dolls each year, but I have decided to make some of these dolls available on Feltmaking.com as "Doll of the month".
The doll of April month is a floating being that is ment just to touch the ground with her toes. Here she is dancing in the light of the early spring that is the most beautiful time of the year in Denmark. She is moving like a ballet dancer and therefore she has a nylon string in the top of her head that can be fastened where she is going to hang, so she will move or turn a little when there is a movement in the room.
More information here
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Written by Birgitte Krag Hansen
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
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The Danish felt union has started a felt education where the students after having joined 6 different modules get a certificate. I was teaching needle felt at module number 6 last week-end in new rooms especially equipped for felt making. Some of the students were the first who had joined all the 6 modules and that way they had finished their education. It was a week-end with a lot of fun but also hard work -to manage to learn all the techniques that needle felt consist of. The students made a needled figure in a free chosen position so at the end we had children, old men and women, men from the wood and a ballet dancer.
As you can see on the photo Bente has really got “appetite on the subject” on our way home in the train.
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Doll of the month - March 2007 |
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Written by Birgitte Krag Hansen
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
I am often contacted by visitors who would like to buy dolls they have seen in the picture galleries. But all of these dolls have been made as part of projects or have been pre-ordered a long time before they were made. Due to lack of time I only make a very limited number of dolls each year, but I have decided to make some of these dolls available on Feltmaking.com as "Doll of the month".
This month I have chosen to let this golden eagle be the "doll” of the month. I have become very fascinated by this proud bird while I have worked with it for my new book.
More information here
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A whole long dye-day -gave a new idea |
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Written by Birgitte Krag Hansen
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
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Thursday it was time to supplement my rainbow-dyed raw fleece and my carded batts.I had promised to help my sister to dye her homespun yearn too, so we had arranged a good long day for that project.
I dye in my oven in the roasting pan. I springle dyepowder on the wet wool and press the colours together. Now because my sister had a certain imagination of how her yarn should look, I had to be very, very carefull not to springle too much powder on and then suddenly I got the idea to pour just a little dyepowder on a wet piece of wool and then I could press it down on the yarn and make it much more accurate.Such a simple idea but incredible effective. |
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