Wrangling Wool Fibers in Wet Felting with Lisa Klakulak Spring 2025

04/05/2025 12:00 PM - 04/12/2025 02:00 PM ET

Description

Felting wool fiber is a relationship of mass and space. So, let’s engage with a scale and a means for measuring area to gain some control over this often mystified, highly variable process to help you understand what you get and get what you want. Felting is attributed, of course, to the biology of hair, but the process is dictated by external conditions and forces that we control, the human variable in the process! Wet felting provides a unique sense of agency in the actual making of the material simultaneous to ones just touching it. Through a full range of pressure and rapidity of agitation, from the gentlest of nudging and nurturing to heated agitation and intrusive, directive pressure, we’ll expand our sense of touch.

We will discuss biological characteristics of wool, theory on fiber lay out, wet out and vertical fiber integration vs horizontal as related to possible shrinkage and resulting surface quality for two 2 extremely different weights of wool. With some simple math let’s calculate shrinkage of area and dimensions, learn how to apply these numbers to recreate the same quality of felt in various sizes based on one’s desired outcome and learn what “partial felt” is and discuss its varied applications in broadening felt design.

 

Workshop Session 1: Saturday, April 5, 2025: 12:00 -2:00 pm ET (convert timezone)

Moderated Meetup: Wednesday, April 9, 2025: 7:00-8:00 pm ET (convert timezone)

Workshop Session 2: Saturday, April 12, 2025: 12:00 -2:00 pm ET (convert timezone)

 

All sessions will be held via Zoom Meetings and Saturday sessions will recorded. Video recordings will be available the same day of each session and are accessible to participants through the end of 2025.

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