PHILLIPA ROOKE: AUS, FELTED WEARABLES WITH A TEXTURED SURFACE

PHILLIPA ROOKE, AUSTRALIA: Felted  Wearables with a Textured Surface

Phillipa has been making felt now for about 25 years, and currently teaches felting students pretty much full time for most of the year, and is passionate about the quality of felt in Australia.   She established a felting group in Brisbane where she lives, and organised the 6th Southern Hemisphere Feltmaking Convergence in Queensland in 2001.  Her work has been exhibited in Australia and Europe, and is in several private collections.  Her main area of interest is fine felts.

Felted  Wearables with a Textured Surface

We will be combining fine wool fibre with a range of fabrics to create a new textile fabric which is fine, and which displays subtle and interesting surface variations.  The textiles created may then be combined to form a garment or hanging, which will then be embellished with stitch.  This workshop is suitable for those who have been felting for a while and wish to expand their surface design possibilities and to look at new construction methods for their work

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