PaperFelt Illuminated coming in January 2025!
Wool and paper layered together produce a unique and inspiring textile that illuminates more beautifully than other combinations. Paper adds structure to the felt while allowing for a light wool layout, creating a warm translucency. The paper enhances the textural and sculptural qualities of the felt. When illuminated the light has a honey coloured glow. When unlit, the surface is matte and white, like porcelain.
Our main project will be a cylindrical lamp. You can choose whether to make a table lamp or a hanging lamp. We work with paper layered reliefs, raised fins, layered dimensional shapes, and flat raised surface shapes.
In this Zoom based class, we’ll look at lighting hardware, including sources, plus design process for illuminated felt and construction. For beginning to intermediate feltmakers. My course, Fibre + Paper, is a prerequisite for this class, to ensure you are familiar with the nuances of combining these mediums.
Workshop Fee:
Canada and US: $295.00 USD. This includes lighting hardware, cord, plus paper and shipping.
All other countries: $265.00 USD This includes all of the paper required for the class and shipping.
The workshop takes place over 14 days, with 6 Zoom sessions and 8 days of online classroom discussion. The Zoom meetings will be recorded and released within 1-2 hours in the online classroom, for anyone who can’t attend live, due to scheduling or time zone. There will be time in each Zoom session for Q and A’s. Following the live session days, there are an extra 5 days available in the online classroom for you to post your finished pieces and ask any further questions. This project takes about 10 hours to complete, and extra time is allowed for in the Zoom session for answering all questions. You can work along with me, during the Zoom session, or watch the recorded session and complete each stage of the work on your own time. The project is broken into smaller sections, which are easily achievable in a few hours each day.
In my Zoom based workshops, my Zoom Technician, Emily, joins us for all sessions to help you with any issues in accessing the meetings, and also to ensure everything goes smoothly, with no technical issues during each session. This way we can all focus on our felting, and not our devices or technology! I also always have one or two class assistants join our meetings, who have worked with me for years and are familiar with my techniques and the project. They’ll help answer your questions and direct your questions to me during the meetings, to be sure I see and hear all questions during those sessions. It’s so important to me that you receive the best, most clear and easy-to-follow instructions and advice in any class!
I have a new high-end webcam for my overhead video, to ensure clear imagery and sound, and Emily and I have set up some variations in our recording process so that the recorded videos will capture every step and instruction, to make them the most helpful to you, for working on your own, or for reference after the class.
This class is entirely Zoom based- the video meetings are all recorded but there are no extra pre-recorded videos or PDF’s. You have unlimited access to the class materials, including video recordings and class discussions.
Class schedule:
January 1: Classroom opens for Materials Discussions and Introductions
January 20: First day of workshop-Zoom Session 9:00am – 12:00 (PST)
Overview, sample-weight of layout, prefelt making, cutting resist to size and wool layout
January 21: Zoom Session 9:00am – 12:00 (PST)
Adding paper design
January 22 and 23: Catch-Up Days- online classroom discussions available
January 24: Zoom Session 9:00am- 11:00am (PST)
Adding dimensional embellishments
January 25: Catch-Up Day- online classroom discussions available
January 26: Zoom Session 9:00am- 11:00am (PST)
Felting the work
January 27: Zoom Session 9:00am- 11:00am (PST)
Final Shaping and Finishing
January 28: Zoom Session 9:00am- 12:00 (PST)
Attaching felt to frame, review and final Q and A
January 29 – February 2: Online classroom time to share work and ask questions
These meetings will be recorded and released within 1-2 hours in the online classroom, for anyone that can’t attend live, due to scheduling or time zone. You can work along with me, during the Zoom session, or watch the recorded session and complete each stage of the work on your own time. There are a few extra days added to the timetable, to allow everyone to get to the same stage during the workshop.
This is a handy time calculator to figure out what time the session will run in your time zone:
The online classroom opens on January 1, 2024 for introductions and materials discussions.
The first Zoom Session is on January 20 at 9:00 am PST.
Workshop Fee:
Canada and US: $295.00 USD. This includes lighting hardware, cord, plus paper and shipping.
All other countries: $265.00 USD This includes all of the papers required for the class and shipping.
Workshop materials, including the instructional Zoom recordings, plus the online classroom discussion, will be available to you indefinitely- for as long as my learning platform exists! You have permanent access to all the learning materials!
If you have any questions at all about this class- please do email me!
