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Image by Jennifer MacKay.
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Please take time to look around the site - feltmakers are invited to contribute to the content by sending an email to the address on this page. We are delighted to say that many textile enthusiasts have contacted us and have joined in with our activities.
The International Feltmakers Association was formed to foster worldwide interest in felt, to promote members' work and keep members in contact with one another for exchange of knowledge and ideas. It came into being as a result of an exhibition in 1979 "Art of the Feltmaker" organised by Mary Burkett at Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal, which showed felts from many countries, from the Middle East, Asia, Scandinavia and a little contemporary work. The show turned the country-artists, craftsmen, students and colleges were amazed and delighted. Such was the interest in felt that the Association was formed in 1984 with Mary Burkett as its president. Members' interests range from the historical and anthropological aspects of felt to the art and craft of felt as a medium. The Association aims to increase the general involvement in feltmaking through a network of regional groups, our quarterly journal "Echoes", exhibitions, lectures and workshops. Members also travel far and wide to learn traditional and new methods and to present feltmaking in schools and colleges. There is communication and interaction between feltmakers from all over the world.
All information concerning this event in Amersfoort, Holland is available through a page dedicated to the AGM & Conference
Would all members please note that subscriptions are now due. You are invited to renew your membership online or by using the form in Echoes
A new page featuring associate organisations has been created.
We have included a document listing all diary events, exhibitions, etc that would have made their way into the latest issue of Echoes. The file is in a PDF file; click here if you need to install a reader.
A correction is needed concerning the information published in the member's newsletter of Echoes issue 86 about the wool project in Värtsilä Finland. Here is a link to Rod's correction.
The website is changing. Please be patient while we make some changes (and maybe accidentally break a few things in the process).
Please email membership@feltmakers.com. Application forms and rates for subscription will be available on this site soon but in the meanwhile you may go here and follow the IFA links.
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