time flies....

 Ricarda Assmann - felt laboratory

time flies when you're having fun.... and fun there was since my last post about Ricarda Assmann. There were a lot of interesting classes with great teachers in atelier Fiberfusing. For a lot of photo's you better go to the albumsection of the facebookpage atelier Fiberfusing. If you would like to keep informed about the activities please send an email and like the page on facebook.

 Minka de Weerd - silverclay and felt

 Ulla Lapiolathi - natural printing and painting 

 Irit Dulman - tatooing a new surface

 Andrea Graham - a serie of Pods

 Leiko Uchiyama - Pine needle felt

 Pam de Groot - Garden Gathering

 Pam de Groot - splashes and sprials

 Irina Levkovich - dressmaking

 Kate Ramsey - lacemaking in felt

 Irit Dulman - tattooing a new surface

 Jacquelien van Eerden - solid rock

 Anneke Copier, Claudio Varone - felt for architecture

 Andrea Graham - jewelry in felt

 Jorie Johnson - layer on layer design

 Anita Larkin - felting found objects

Refashioned - green hotspot downtown fashionweek Amsterdam

Here we are busy with making a good mix of the music of Cruxshadows for the show and I'am getting in a good mood! Yeah, tomorrow will be the fashionshow Refashioned. The show  will be part of the downtown fashionweek and is choosen to be one of the green hotspots! It's a fantastic opportunity to show felt as fashion. Wool is a sustainable material which has many possibilities. It has challenged Horst to experiment with it and starting to creating his elaborate, avantgarde gowns made of felted wool. The show shall be openend by showing the coats made by several designers, supervised by Horst. This will be followed the Transcendence-collection made by Tatiana Sheverda, 'Lines and Holes' made by  Kate Ramsey and the NOWA natural organic wearable art collection of Dorie van Dijk   Horst shall be showcasing his new purposed line as a tribute to his grandmother.  So let's Refashioned!   

The fashion show will be held in Theatre 't Woord at Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam— Oosterdokskade 143, 1011 DL Amsterdam—on 10 July 2012 at 20.00 uur, with a preview at the stairways at 19.15. Tickets available online www.oba.nl, click agenda and kaartverkoop  

Achter mij wordt de band samengesteld met muziek van de Cruxshadows en het brengt me in een goede stemming. Het is bijna zover, morgen de fashionshow Refashioned!! Ik naai nog de laatste knoopjes aan, doe labeltjes in de kleding en we maken woldonuts voor in het haar. De fashionshow zal onderdeel zijn van de downtownfashionweek en is gekozen als een van de Green Hotspots. Dit biedt een geweldige gelegenheid om vilt als modeproduct te laten zien. Wol is een duurzaam materiaal met vele mogelijkheden. Het heeft Horst uitgedaagd om te gaan experimenteren en is daarmee bekend geworden om zijn avangardistische kleding. Deze show wordt geopend met 'coat-coutures' van diverse ontwerpers, gevolgd door de Transcendence-collectie van  Tatiana Sheverda, 'Lines and Holes' van Kate Ramsey en de NOWA natural organic wearable art collection van Dorie van Dijk. Horst zal zijn zijn nieuwste collectie van jurken laten zien als eerbetoon aan zijn grootmoeder, die in haar leven vele bruidsjurken heeft gemaakt.

De fashion show zal worden gehouden in theatre 't Woord at Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam— Oosterdokskade 143, 1011 DL Amsterdam—on 10 July 2012 at 20.00 uur, met een preview op de roltrappen om 19.15. Tickets te verkrijgen via www.oba.nl, klik agenda and kaartverkoop  

modern felt

Kate Ramsey                                                    

Tatiana Sheverda

The last two weekends I was privileged to host two workshops with Kate Ramsey and Tatiana Sheverda. Both young and working with felt in a professional way. 
Kate has learned us how to make felted garments in a simple, but luxury way. She showed us how to make lines and holes, which created very light and drapey felt. 
Tatiana has launched recently her new fashion-collection Transcendence and teached us already the techniques she has used for this collection. She demonstrated how to create 3D surfaces with different kind of shiboro techniques. Both are willing to come back, Kate around 9 September 2012 for three days and hopefully Tatiana will teach a masterclass again in 2013.

3D surface feltsamples made by Tatiana

De afgelopen 2 weekenden waren helemaal top! Ik heb ik het voorrecht gehad Kate Ramsey and Tatiana Shevera te mogen ontvangen, twee zeer gedreven jonge designers en vilsters. De workshops waren een succes!
Kate leerde hoe je op een doeltreffende manier luxe vilt kunt maken. Ze liet ons zien hoe jezelf haar bestsellers op Etsy kon maken. Met lijnen en gaten in het vilt kan een licht en mooi vallend vilt worden gemaakt.
Tatiana heeft onlangs haar nieuwe kledinglijn Transcendence gelanceerd. In de workshop demonstreerde ze de gebruikte shibori technieken om zo een 3D werk te creeeren, waarna we zelf aan de gang konden gaan. Beiden komen terug, Kate rond het weekend van 9 september voor drie dagen en hopelijk lukt het Tatiana om in 2013 terug te komen.

the colourful results after the 2days masterclass with Kate

Kate Ramsey

Tatiana Sheverda

some new workshops

The Netherlands seems attracks all kind of feltteachers from abroad. Via  all kind of social networks I'am very lucky to get to know and meet some of them!

At the end of May I will welcome Claudia U. Gemein from Germany. Her name was mentioned to me when I was visiting in 2007 Turkish feltmaster Mehmet Girgiç. She has done an intensive study in traditional felt and had the chance to work with him some years. Together with her background as a sculpturist she can lead you on an artistic felt path. In the workshop of 27 and 28 May, 2012 we will work with the charasterics of wool in making an unique and personal sculpture.

Kate Ramsey of Fabulous Felt will teach Modern Designs with felt in lines and holes, making a range of scarfs at 9 en 10 June, 2012.

Just one week later Tatiana Sheverda from Australia will come to Europe and she will stop at my atelier. Her speciality is working with felt-shibori. In this 2 days masterclass she will teach the unique way of creating marvelous 3D surfaces from nuno-felted pieces and make series of accessoires and samples featuring a range of shibori techniques.  





Please feel free to send me an email for more information about these workshops