Learn how to make a felted vessel in this workshop with artist Petra Hilsen.

Aimed at anyone aged 14 years and above.

You will learn:

to make a template
to lay out the wool over the template
to decorate the outside of the vessel
Felting process
Shaping the vessel
All materials provided

Suitable for beginners

Cost per person:

$105 waged, $90 students/pensioners

About Petra
I am a feltmaker working in Newcastle Australia. I love the design and structural abilities the wool offers. The therapeutic benefits are awesome.
I was born in Germany and came to Australia in 1982. I am engineer by trade and worked for over 20 Years in early childhood management. However I was always interested in textiles. First watching my grandmother who was a talented seamstress making our clothes and my mother knitting socks and vests for us. Later I dabbled myself making clothes for my dolls and enrolled in a dress making course. During Uni I took up spinning, weaving and dying of wool. Wool became my favourite medium. I took up felt-making in late 2014 during a particularly stressful situation at work. Today I am working full-time as a felt-maker and couldn't be happier.