A trip to the Horniman Museum
A group of 7 members from Region 4 gathered in the sunny café garden at 11.30am on the 11th of August. I had been wanting to visit the museum to see…
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Baku Felt Symposium
The Felt Symposium in Baku looks to be a very exciting event. Our chair, Johanna Roesti will be one of the speakers. Please click on the links below for full…
ArtyBird Carnforth Delivers City & Guilds Accredited Programmes
City & Guilds has withdrawn its Design and Craft Approved schemes under which our successful suite of Felt courses were delivered. City & Guilds invited us to join their Accredited…
Conference and AGM, Sweden, 2018
The details of next year's conference in Landskrona are now ready and can be found here: conference information. We look forward to welcoming members, new and old, at this wonderful…
ETN meeting in Borås
Hot stuff! Wool and fibre are becoming trendy as design and fashion go back to basics, combining local natural materials with modern technology. This was one of trend forecaster, Lij…
Yarnfolk 2017
Review of 1st annual Yarnfolk Festival, Whitehead 5 August 2017 The quiet seaside village of Whitehead, Co Antrim, was all abuzz on Saturday with the first annual Yarnfolk Festival. I had…
Website switchover
The switchover has now been successfully completed.
Innovation competition for the benefit of wool
How can we increase the use of wool among companies and consumers? This was the question 80 Danish and Swedish students got to work with for two and a half…
Obituary
It is with great sadness that we report one of our members in Region 18, Americas, K.C. Lowe from Anchorage, Alaska died in May 2017. Her daughter Kara wrote “I…
Meeting in Felletin
Wednesday 24 April, Carin Madsén Kollberg, IFA International Officer met about twenty French feltmakers and chairman of Feutre Art Textile in the small town of Felletin. Her task was to…
Our New President!
It is with great pleasure that we announced at the AGM in April at Belsey Bridge in the UK, that Sheila Smith has agreed to be our new president. The nominations received…
Woolly Art in the Park
I own a company called Art Daze in Lancashire running art and craft workshops in schools specialising in Felt Making. During the summer I worked with a small group of 11…