Felted Vessel Workshop with Petra Hilsen
Event description
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.
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