Workshops:
will be updated. Workshop organizers/venues can send proposals for organizing my workshops at viltess[eta]gmail.com
November-December 2017 - Argentina. Contact: Luciana Marrone - tallerestintorea@gmail.com
Past workshops:
November-December, 2016. Buenos Aires, Arenas Verdes, Argentina.
Fiber inlay technique. Fiber construction. Pattern making in nuno felting. Games of fibres.
Organizer: Luciana Marrona
March 10-12, 2016. Slovenia. https://www.facebook.com/events/944164732342993/
Fabric manipulation in nuno felt. Fiber inlay technique in nuno felt. Nuno felt top
November 2015. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fabric manipulation in nuno felt, Fiber sculpture, Pattern making.
Arenas Verdes. "We all become stories" - fiber inlay technique in nuno felt garment making.
Organizer: Luciana Marrone.
September, 2015. Kiyev, Ukraine. TODO Art Club.
Nuno felt dress and natural dyeing.
July 23-24, 2015. London, UK
Textural retrospective. Nuno felt.
"Second Floor Studios & Arts".
April, 2015. Vilnius, Kaunas, Lithuania
Fabric manipulation in nuno felt dresses
November 26-November 30, 2014. Arenas Verdes, Argentina. Organizer: Luciana Marrone
September 8-14, 2014. Cyprus.
The search for Identity.
This is not a regular felting workshop, rather a creative journey in search of authentic identity in felting textures, forms, and using natural colours.
What are the main traits of creativity? How does creativity work for us?
Can we define self? How do we draw parallels of our characteristics of self and our creative language?
What influences authentic self expression and imitation?
What is there in the colour? What do we base our selection of colour on?
These are the theoretical questions we will try to explore together during the workshop.
During the practical part of the workshop we will explore different felt textures as a personal language, looking for possible alterations to match our authentic identities.
We will explore felt’s characteristics as lightness, heaviness, density, transparency, drape and stretch through fiber dynamics.
We will learn to make a flat body prototype pattern to be used as a reference in altering patterns and creating interesting forms. We will also analyze specific forms and their application, such as full circle, double circle, triple circle, etc and different pattern inserts.
You will then design your own wearable piece referring to all the practical and theoretical experience lived through the workshop.
We will also explore natural colours – mordanting, extracting colors, modifying them and applying colours in a creative way of mixing and matching different tones and different plants. We will practice an analytic method of natural dyeing plan and the choice of materials depending on it.
Info and registration: viltess@gmail.com
November 26-December 3, 2013. Arenas Verdes, Argentina
collaborative workshops with Irit Dulman
Nuno felt kimono with landscape sculptures + eco print and its distortion
Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation + botanical print
Fabric manipulation in making nuno felt. Samples
http://encuentrotextilinternacional.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Encuentro-Textil-Internacional-P%C3%A1gina/599112846799786?ref=hl
Contact: Andrea Bustelo (adreabustelo@gmail.com), Luciana Marrone (airesnaturales@yahoo.com)
September 9-17, 2013. Cyprus
RECONSTRUCTION
Layers of Natural Color and Design in Felting
with Irit Dulman and Vilte Kazlauskaite
September 9-17, 2013. Cyprus.
Vilte Kazlauskaite:
- Exploring layers in felting and their characteristics, as well as possibilities of fusion
- Reconstruction of layers and introduction of other design elements
- Color language - personal colors and print as the starting point of the design
- Fiber dynamics and pattern making
- Mixing and matching the textural language of felt
Irit Dulman:
- Botanical print and natural background coloring - exploring layers in color
- Contact dyeing - possibilities of graphical, watercolor, and marbling effects
- Distortion and reconstruction of botanical prints
- Advanced felt focused exploration of botanical print in all stages of felt making
September 9-17, 2013, Cyprus
info: viltess@gmail.com
July 24-27, 2013
Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses
Atelier Fiber Fusing, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
May 24-31, 2013
Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses.
Wild fibers. Fiber manipulation and fleeces in nuno felted accessories.
FELTFULL 2013, the Netherlands, Friesland
November, 2012
November 19-21 - Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses.
November 22-24 - Wild fibers. Fiber manipulation and fleeces in nuno felted accessories + ECO PRINT with Irit Dulman, Charkov, Ukraine
+380 (50) 956-55-84 Светлана Борисовна, kachalova.svetlana@patchwork.kharkov.ua
January 12-22, 2013
Monterey, San Francisco, USA. Contact: veronika_iv@yahoo.com
(Beyond the surface - fabric manipulation in dresses; Wild fibers - accessories)
in the island of Aphrodite - CYPRUS:
Course I
Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felt dresses + Eco print.
July 17-20, 2012
Course II
Wild fibers. Fiber manipulation and raw fleeces in nuno felt accessories + Eco print.
July 21-23, 2012
May 22-24, 25-27, 2012 Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses. Charkov, Ukraine
+380 (50) 956-55-84 Светлана Борисовна
Australia tour: Perth - lindyfrayne@hotmail.com
March 10-11, 2012 Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Samples and scarf
March 13-15, 2012 Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses
in Melbourne - ralhig@gmail.com
March 17-18, 2012 Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Tops
March 19-21, 2012 Wild fibers in modern couture. Kimono coat
March 23, 2012 Creative surface decoration - dimensional craters and bubbles in felting and nuno felting
March 25, 2012 Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting.
in Sydney - wooldancer@gmail.com
March 27-28, 2012 Wild fibers in modern couture. Drapable accessories
March 30-April 1, 2012 Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses
in Brisbane - wendy@wendybailye.com
April 5, 2012 Beyond the surface + wild fibers. Shawl. ext. hours workshop
April 6-7, 2012 Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Tops
April 8-9, 2012 Wild fibers in modern couture. Drapable accessories
in Tasmania - june.e.hope@gmail.com
April 12-13, 2012 Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Tops
April 15-16, 2012 Wild fibers in modern couture. Drapable accessories
Shkatulochka, Moscow, Russia - February 2012
(Wild fibers in modern couture. Kimono coat)
Shkatulochka, Moscow, Russia - November 2011
(Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses)
Italian Felt Academy, Verona, Italy - October 2011
(Archaic felt in modern couture. Dresses)
Studio FILT, Baard, the Netherlands - September 2011
(Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses
Wild fibers in modern couture. Kimono coat)
Bocian, Lublin, Poland - July 2011
(Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses)
Shkatulochka, Moscow, Russia - June 2011
(Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses)
IFA, Litchfield, UK - May 2011
(Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Samples.
Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses)
Vrouw wolle, Essen, Belgium - April 2011
(Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses)
Studio FILT, Baard, the Netherlands - April 2011
(Beyond the surface. Fabric manipulation in nuno felting. Dresses)
Italian Felt Academy, Verona, Italy - March 2011
(Archaic felt in modern couture. Dresses)
Midwest Felting Symposium, Madison, WI, USA - July 2010
(Felting with raw wool; Fabric manipulation; Creative surfaces)
My book "Veltinis" ("Felt"), second edition can be purchased here and here.
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