Intro to Wet Felting Workshop

Instructor: Kara Perpelitz
Saturday 9am-5pm
1 day: April 18
Location: In-person Williams Building room 357
$140 +materials  fee $25
Prerequisite: None

In this project based one day workshop students will create a cowl out of merino wool, silk and other fibres using wet felting skills that include nuno felting, resist felting and shibori felting techniques. This project is a good introduction to Felting I.

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Syllabus

• Calculation of shrinkage in felting
• Creation and use of resists to make a seamless cowl
• Nuno felting concepts
• Wool layout concepts

Supplies

Materials provided in class by instructor include:

• ~2 oz of merino wool
• assortment of other fibres
• silk pieces
• bubble wrap
• soap
• resist materials