Learn to craft the soft and chunky colored merino wool into pictures, jewellery, hats, bags, scarves or slippers .
Make unique puppets and toys using a range of techniques from feltmaking to recycling .
Convert domestic waste materials and old garments into useful objects, imaginative artworks or fashionable clothing and accessories .
Embellish clothing and accessories using specialised craft techniques including tie-dye, applique, beading and embroidery .
Design your own stencils and learn to transfer them onto textiles using
different techniques including screen printing .
Combining different techniques and materials make a collective artwork for permanent display and to use as a creative tool for learning .
Learn millinery craftman skills.
Experimenting with straw, felt, feathers, silk and trimming make a one-off hat.
We are happy to come to your school or community and to demonstrate our activities and techniques .
Teachers can produce collective artworks for permanent display to inspire their pupils .
Since I started to Make I always been recycling and reusing second hand clothes, fabrics, yarns. To Recycle and Reuse is a real excitment for me.
I like originality and diversity !
Recycling offer the unique opportunity to Re-Explore all sort of available materials and to create items that challenge the idea of "Art".
With all the resources available
Imagine the endless possibilities...
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Passionnate about Art & Craft Sabine Fouchier is a Designer Maker as well as a creative Partner. Specialised in the ancient craft of feltmaking and millinery, she offers creative skills in schools and communities to groups ranging from nursery to adults, as well as running private lessons. Sabine Fouchier travels regularly to Mongolia, where she is involved with sustainability projects with communities to adapt their traditional feltmaking skills to create felted items for their social enterprise.
In 2011 She' has been awarded a prize by Victorinox "Family Project" to run free
craft workshops about RECYCLING., REUSING, REMAKING.
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Synopsis
Felt by Sabine Fouchier
This book provides an introduction to this simple but effective technique. It includes information about materials, tools and techniques, suppliers, and of course a number of easy-to-follow, clearly illustrated step-by-step making sequences for items such as hats, bags, cushions, scarves, decorations and gifts etc. It also includes a chapter on making felt with children. Easy, cheap and fun, feltmaking doesn't require special tools or equipment; you can easily make felt in your own home with a minimum of fuss and equipment.
