international feltmakers association

• Read reviews of shows in Scotland, New Zealand, Australia and Lithuania.
• Get the latest information on the IFA’s AGM 2012, including the series of workshops planned for the event.
• Discover how one felt maker has made use of traditional Kyrgyz patterns and techniques in her own work.
• Get money-saving gift ideas from South Africa.
• Ellie Langley focuses on the Merino sheep in her last Baa! article for a while, and raises important questions about the production of super-fine wool.

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• Annemie Koenen and colleagues report back on their efforts to reintroduce felting skills to Armenia.
• Read about Barbara Keal’s quirky and original headwear, which has been taking the fashion world by storm.
• Enjoy a virtual trip down the Artistic Felt Path of northern Italy, where felt and nature go hand-in-hand
• Find out what members have been up to at workshops in France, Latvia and across the UK.
• The secrets of laser cutting and making delicate ‘seed pods’ are revealed in step-by-step detail.

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• Fashion from Japan features in an article by our cover artist, Leiko Uchiyama, and a review of exhibits of work by designers Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo.
• Find out how Sarah Brooker 'paints' with fibres to create vivid artworks.
• Catch up on events around the regions with reports from Regions 2, 10 and 12.
• IFA President Mary Burkett introduces us to the explorations of Gertrude Bell and felt in China.
• Ellie Langley focuses on the Hebridean in her fascinating series on sheep breeds.

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• Discover Sue Walton’s evocative, Victorian-inspired creations that combine felt with textiles and embellishments.

• Enjoy reviews of textile events in New York state, Canada and South America.

• Find out what’s planned for the IFA AGM and workshops in April.

• Read reviews of Stephanie Bunn’s Nomadic Felts, which is featured on the cover of the journal.

• Make a date to visit the UK leg of the ground-breaking exhibition, "The Climate is Changing!"

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• Cathy Unwin goes behind the scenes at the British Museum to examine some historical felts.

• Valerie Graves describes how a happy accident led to the birth of her quirky and characterful felt hares.

• Discover how a painting by David Hockney was translated into felt for a public art commission in Yorkshire.

• Find out how felt makers in Sweden have used industrial felt to create decorative bodices

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Special 100th issue.

• Melanie Bermingham discusses how the development of Felt Matters from its early days as a photocopied newsletter to today’s full-colour journal has mirrored a growing sophistication within the felt making community

• Elis Vermeulen explains how she created her striking installation of a felt boat in an abbey in the Netherlands

• Ellie Langley puts the focus on sheep farming and felt making in Finland, and questions the relevance of the forthcoming Wool Week in the UK

• savour the work made at international felt making conferences and workshops in Sweden, Hungary and Australia

• find out how UK felt makers have contributed to the international textile project, Afghan Inspiration

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• read in-depth features about the opening of the IFA’s latest and perhaps most significant international exhibition, The Climate is Changing!
• enjoy photographs of Feltrosa 2010 and the fabulous felt creations made at the workshops
• discover how young designers are using felt in bridal wear and to create stunning jewellery items
• in other sections, one felt maker reveals how she overcame serious handicaps to continue felting, and a complete felting novice shows how thick felt pads are helping to protect donkeys’ backs in rural Ethiopia

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• read reviews of the Cooper-Hewitt’s ‘Fashioning Felt’ exhibition in New York as well as the Feltrosa event in Italy and Felletin in France

• find out how members can share resources to set up regional workshops

• discover how one maker created a piece of handmade felt 6 metres in length!

• enjoy our new regular feature on sheep breeds, which this issue focuses on the Wensleydale

• find out how you can submit work for the forthcoming international exhibition, 'The Climate is Changing!'

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• read Mary Burkett's article on the IFA’s 25th Anniversary

• find out how to get involved in our international exhibition on the theme of climate change

• enjoy reviews of events from Japan to Switzerland

• learn about feltmaking in early modern Europe

• discover how moths inspired one felt maker to create quirky and original 3-D designs

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A DVD was sent to all IFA members with this issue of Felt Matters.

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