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The Regional Coordinators (RCs) get together with the Committee annually to discuss any IFA regional issues, meet new RCs and generally have face to face communications to assist the running…

For three days in October, 2019, an international networking meeting of 28 people from 13 countries took place in Mouzon, France. For the summary of that meeting as compiled by…

Christina Zofall Wilson Membre d'Honneur de l'association Feutre Art Textile It is with regret that I announce the passing of Christina on 13th September 2019 and I would like to…

FROM ORIENT TO OCCIDENT To mark the 40th anniversary of the modern art of felting, an excellent jubilee exhibition, conceived by Mari Nagy and Istvan Vidak, opened on 5 June…

A couple of years ago, I organised a feltmaking retreat in the mountains of SE France.  The idea was to spend time working on your own practice create and play…

If you are interested in historical felts, you often have to make quite an effort to get a close look at them. For serious researchers, the Study Collection Centre of…

Binding the Past to the Present Through Remembrance, a Heritage Lottery funded community project run by local artist Suzie Gutteridge with Salisbury Cathedral’s Outreach team, was inspired by the puttees…

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…

City & Guilds has withdrawn its Design and Craft Approved schemes under which our successful suite of Felt courses were delivered.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…

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…