no boundries

several jewelries made by Judit Pocs 

In October this year Judit Pocs from Hungary has been teaching several workshops. It was a joy to have her around. Judit showed us that whatever your imagination is, it is possible to make it into a feltdesign. There are just no boundries! Here you will find some of the things that were made. . Good news is that she will be back next year around the end of October/begin November 2014.

working together

Vorige maand, in oktober, heeft Judit Pocs verschillende workshops gegeven. Het was heerlijk om haar hier te mogen ontvangen. Judit liet ons zien dat ieder design, ieder idee omgezet kan worden in een mooi viltwerk, of dat nu in een sieraad is, in een hoed of in een sculptuur. Hierbij een aantal van de werken die tijdens de workshops zijn gemaakt. Judit zal hier volgend jaar in oktober/november weer een aantal workshops geven.

More photo's to see on my FB-page.

one of the sculptures made by a student

heel veel dank and thank you all !!!!!

Fashion Art Design at Fort aan de Drecht, Uithoorn, the Netherlands 30 August 2013
Paintings Henny Woud, sculptures Sabrina Woud,  felted fashion Dorie van Dijk
models from Future Vibes

Beste allemaal,

Heel veel dank voor uw komst en enthousiaste reacties bij de expositie FASHION ART/ DESIGN in Galerie Fort A/d Drecht in Uithoorn.

Dankzij het geweldige benefietoptreden van HazBeanz, de heerlijke wijn gesponsord door De Wijnschuur,  de verrukkelijke  zelfgemaakte hapjes en......

..........mede dank zij de grote opkomst, het heerlijke weer, het prachtige monumentale gebouw waar we binnen en buiten onze expositie en fashionshow hebben kunnen houden, is het voor ons een onvergetelijk weekend geworden. Iedereen super bedankt hiervoor.

Ook namens Spierziekten Nederland dank voor uw donatie.

Hartelijke groeten van Dorie, Henny en Sabrina

Thank you all for coming to the exhibition FASHION ART/DESIGN. Thanks to the musical performance of HazBeanz, the wine sponsored by the Wijnschuur, de delicious home made snacks and...
.... thanks to your visit, your reactions, the lovely weather and the beautiful building of the Fort we have had an unforgetable evening. Also thanks from the Spierziekten Nederland for your donation.

Henny Woud
Sabrina Woud
Dorie van Dijk - foto's fashionshow

one show after another....

Time flies.. there is so much to do that I just cannot keep track with the same speed as the clock is ticking. I try to keep my blog updated, but it feels that this is ages ago. Anyway here is the link to a video Bea, one of the models, made of the show at the OBA in Amsterdam on th 11th. July 2013. And ofcourse it feels good that we were in the METRO-paper the next day. It's a photo of the preview with two of my garments, showed by left and Louca (right). The one behind is Asia Prusinowska.

we're in the newspaper Metro!

I'm also part of a weekend exhibition at Fort Galerie in Uithoorn, where Henny Woud shall exhibit her paintings and Sabrina Woud shall lightens her special waterbuoy made from willow branches. I shall open this exhibition on Fridayevening with my own small fashionshow. And although it seems that this is the same show, I have some fears. How to fill  the show and please the audience with the amount of pieces I had made last time. And this show will be totaly on my behalf, no more Horst who can guide it or any other technical assistence as there was at the OBA.  I have some ideas but I just don't know if they works....

my brother is checking the poster of the exhibition and fashionshow

the making of....aw13 collection 'Summer Darkness'

My thoughts with this collection were based on my visit to the event Summer Darkness in Utrecht. Watching the people walking around in black cloths, dreadlocks and heavy black make-up and at the other hand the lolita's in soft girly dresses made me wondering why. Both seems to say 'don't touch me!'. The darkness frigthens people while the sweet girls seemed so fragile. Someone told me that this way of dressing will protects the wearers their soft and gentle innersoul....

I started to design 'something' with crosses, because I was inspired by the music and meeting the leadsanger of Cruxshadows. A cross is a sign of protection againts all evil. Along the way of the proces I learned from Carmen Bolanos to work with the indigoblue. Blue was used in the old English wars as a 'make-up' to protect the soldiers during the fights.

Choosing wool and handmade felt as my medium for making the garments I wanted to use the raw wool from the 'Zwart Bless' (Black Bless), given by my friend-farmer Marie-Josee. To test the possibilities with the raw wool in combination with the silks I made several samples for colourcombinations and textures. I have made the felt by myself and used the wool in many different ways.

The natural handdyed and printed silks worked perfectly for the airy lolita dresses, but also as a nunofelt for the tops and jackets. My sister helped me with sewing the fabrics under the felted dresses.

In my opinion the closure of the garments had to be more industrial. I found metalic elements which are normally used for electricity stuff. Together with rubber strips and rings they formed a good closure on the dark clothes.

In a next post I hope to show you more of the finished garments.

Strongfelt, Lisa Klakulak

Lisa arrived very early at the morning of 19th June 2013. She had some troubles to get the right flights because of some stormy weather in her area. Her suitcases were on another plane and we had to wait for a couple of hours. This gave us the chance to chitchat in the juicebar at Schiphol. It is always a surprise to meet someone who is only known by the internet. In this case a very pleasant surprise. The first thing I learned was to pronounce her name well; the accent is on the KU in her familyname! Lisa is a lovely, talkative person and my family and I had a good click with her.

Lisa was happy with the workshop-space and prepaired the needs for the participants for the 2 workshops with partial felts in 3D and nunofelt creations. She works very structured and her approach to the proces or feltmaking is very unique. Her Strongfelt analises make a lot of sense to the students.

The group of students in both classes came from many countries, like Gemany, England, Tsjechie, Belgium, Israel, Denmark, Austria and ofcourse some from the Netherlands too. They learned a lot for sure. Bringing the big world to my humble atelier makes it all worthwhile.  

In the next few days I shall post little by little about each other event that took place at my atelier and I shall talk about my own collection 'Summer Darkness' this year.

'GATHERING'

A special Gathering with 4 international designers giving a spectactular fashionshow on the 11th July 2013 at the OBA in Amsterdam, just before the official fashionweek in Amsterdam will start. There will be a preview at 19.00 hrs with a small talk about the works. At 20.00-21.00 hrs their will be the show in the theatre. Buy your tickets online at www.OBA.nl to be sure of a seat.

The designers are SheverDuska aka Tatiana Sheverda, Asia Prusinowska, Dorie van Dijk and Horst van Horst Couture. The connecting factor is wool and felt! They will tell you about their passion and motivation for their new collection 2013. And I can tell you that each of us has made such a different collection!!!

Asia Prusinowska (Poland, living in the UK) - Memoir
Tatiana Sheverda (Russia, living in Australia) - Galactic Garden
Dorie van Dijk (the Netherlands) - Summer Darkness
Horst (USA) - New Origins

Except for the works of the designers there also will be shown the stunning works made by 4 upcoming designers in the classes Horst has been teaching the past week.
The works will be shown by some lovely models at the music of Cruxshadows.

See you, hope you all will be part of the GATHERING!!!!!!!!!!

Meeting her Majesty Margo Duke

We were honored to have Her Majestety Margo Duke herself around for two special workshops about making flowerfelts with needlepunch machine and construction a felted fascinator. Her creations are very colourfull and so rich in texture and details. It was a great time together and we all learned new things about using a needlepunch machine.

In the fascinator class we had the choice in the many feathers and other decorations Margo took with her. So much fun to make this for in your hair!