Fibre art workshops

 

Gradually we're picking up and back to track.  Fibre arts workshops were held recently.   A botanical printing workshop for the family groups was held in 甲乙丙工作坊. As it's an introduction and for the fun of parents and kids participation I just taught the basic mordant printing on silk with those plants from wild and florist also kitchen waste, the onion skins.  In three hours laying, boiling and chatting they opened the bundles with unexpected outcome.  The photos speak themselves........

 

 

Onion skins, ferns, vegetable flowers.......

assorted eucalyptus...... with participants' own ideas of placing.

Leaves both sides will have different outcome.  See how the difference.

 

 Opening bundles is always excited.

Shades of orange and yellow from the same plant is interesting. It's effect of mordant.

 

Assorted eucalyptus from red, orange to brown.

 

The roaming cats.

Eucalyptus and rose leaves

 

The families are happy with their works.

 

The other day I have a family with children coming in my place for wool felt making and eco printing experiments.

It's their first time encountered wool felt.  They found it interesting with wool wrapped soap and wool can "stick" together.

  

They made the felted soaps and coasters.

Other than wool felting they made a small piece of eco printing.

Kids are imaginative.  Their works are nice.

In an afternoon of chatting, eating and playing with my cat Mogi, they made the colorful creation.

 

 Mogi is so adorable and quite welcome the kids even let them cuddling.

If you find the botanical printing interesting and like to know the making. My on line shop ETSY TerLing Creations  has instant download tutorial, basic one and enhanced one.

Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day.

 

Wool felt workshop brimming with creations 滿滿的羊毛創作

 

 A series of fibre arts workshop just completed and brimming with lots of creations by my young students who were new to wool felt. 

After the introduction of sheep breed and fleece we started to create wool felt with the theme of sheep then other animals and flowers.

 The roaming sheep in the field

 Panda and grass

 Flowers and the cat

 Ocean with textures

 Fish in the ocean

 

After the flat felt, I taught them to make 3D objects. 

First to do flowers then owl

  

 Made owl with foam resist 

    

  Stuffed owls and roaming sheep

 

  Herd of sheep

 

 Purses and coated bottles

 

 The 5-week intensive fibre arts workshops were interesting. 

 

 Students were pleased with their work done

 Display with roaming sheep, owls, coated stones, soaps, flowers, purses, coated bottles......

  .....and the many pictures they made

 

During the classes, students were taught with team works.  Each made wool felted ropes.  I asked them to make something the the wool ropes, they braided a fish.

 

 Another team work was each to roll a small amount of wool then made it a thicker with all and they rolled with bamboo mat alternatively till it's very firm. Then cut it to see the pretty core.

 A team work again.  Each to make a small piece wool felt then tie all strings together

to make it a long scarf.

Final day was to do nuno felt.  With small amount of wool layered on the natural printed scarf they made earlier before wool felt workshop.  Quite nice to see how they done it with textures.