A felt collar made by the Basque artist Kris Meraki is the cover of this year’s filzfun winter issue, in which we also would like to introduce other creative feltmakers: Nicole Maushake, who felts imaginative hunting trophies, Merja Markkula, who has turned artist after her career as a scientist, as well as Gabriele Bernards, who supports, amongst others, refugee children through her work. Additionally, you will hear from the most important exhibits
and events around the textile art scene, of interesting courses and the history of the Turkmen saddle blankets made from felt. Annette Quentin-Stoll gives instructions how to felt a sitting pad with a chessboard pattern, and Margit Röhm explains how a felted surface becomes smooth by singeing it.

Felt art as an inspiration for your own projects, reports from the textile art scene, tips for courses, workshops, exhibitions and other events as well as an exclusive instruction by Katrin Schulz how to felt a romantic »school cornet« for a kid’s first day at school – the summer issue of the filzfun offers again a diversified, exciting mixture of different themes around felting. We are pleased to present the breathtaking work of Kira Outembetova, we are pleased to show photos from »Sea States«, a great exhibit by Fiona Duthie and Yekaterina Mokeyeva and we are going to take you

 

along on Debbie Zawinski’s adventurous hike on the trail of Scottish sheep races. Our portrait gallery is dedicated this time to the felt artists Barbara Eichhorn from Franconia and Barbara Füreder from Vienna. The filzfun was present at the German-speaking felters’ meeting in Hohebuch and at the Wollefest in Leipzig and we report first-hand!