Our new spring issue will certainly make all felters’ hearts leap! New artists’ portraits tell you about their impressive crafts and working techniques, and we hope to provide a lot of motivation to try some of these out for yourself. The »gleanings« are concerned with the highlights of the latest felting events and courses. Directly from Paris we in-

This issue offers a curiousity: A man in the felters’ scene! We’re talking about the American designer Horst, who made the palm sander his trademark. Andrea Noeske-Porada needs structure and estimates a thorough technical basis as the prerequisites for a flexible and free working process. Doris Breuer

In this issue, everything is about changes. Change as camouflage is a topic, the Russian artist Tatiana Sheverda thinks about. In her design, she exhibits the »chameleon-like« human nature. A side glance on fashion’s history also shows how essential adaptation was in order not to be excluded from society.

We deal with screenprinting on felt and make a visit at »manomama«, where clothes and accessories are produced organically and socially acceptable.

We report from a workshop in Argentina which was visited by eager participants

Since we consider the topic important, we discussed the problem of »copyright« in textile arts and asked renowned felters to answer questions such as: Why copy? Who does it? And what, actually, is a copy?
In our artists' portraits you read about

Join us in thinking in new categories: Sustainability as a topic of global importance will be addressed from this issue on. Sara Lechner will be the first: We can share her thoughts on »production consumption« from an artist's point of view. Sustainability is also of