filzfun: Issue 61 winter 2018/2019
It is hard to say during which season feltmaking is more fun: Outside in the summer or inside in winter, when the days are shorter and when you can let your thoughts roam freely around the felting table. Susanne Schächter-Heil offers a strong argument in the winter filzfun to get water and soap on the spot: With the help of many photos she describes how a nativity scene, complete with the Holy Family, shepherds and sheep can be wet-felted in the build-up technique.
Also we can look over Kinga Huszti’s shoulder when she explains how her most delicate, life-like leaves for interior decorations, such as for tables or windows, are felted. Her artistic renown, however, stems mostly from her extravagant millinery. In the filzfun winter issue you also get to know two other felt artists, Elisabeth Paul, who combines felt and photography in an astoundingly beautiful way, und Iveta Hruscova, who is a skilled designer of unusual felt fashion.
From the small village of Raach in Lower Austria, where the felt education of the wollmodus collective and the Marktfest fair around sheep, wool and wood took place, to the Eifel with the third textile art hiking path as far as the US with the Midwest Felting Symposium our journey leads to the many feltmaking and textile art events of the past months. Participants report from the felt educations of the Filz-Netzwerks in Soltau and Düsseldorf and of courses held by Kerstin Waizenegger, Sawatou Mouratidou and Ellen Bakker give you many ideas regarding new feltmaking techniques. Quite welcome in this context should be the great number of courses and workshop offered that are collected in the practical schedule attachment.
