There are few things more satisfying or invigorating than a nice hot cup of tea. Join felt artist Martien van Zuilen in this colourful and fun class and make a uniquely hand-felted tea cosy made to fit your favourite pot! You will learn (new) skills to make seamless felt and, as importantly, to add all manner of design work on the surface of your cosy. Think colour, patterns, beads, loops, textures and more. Think funky, hip and jazzy. You can spruce it up or tone it down – it’s your cosy and you can embellish if you want to. Coffee lovers (think felted plunger cosies) are of course very welcome too!
Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced (18+ years)
Tutors
Martien van Zuilen
Martien van Zuilen is a felt artist, curator and tutor living in Perth, Australia. She exhibits her high-quality and distinctive felt art nationally and internationally. Since the late 1980s she teaches felt-making workshops at all levels of experience; throughout Australia, in Europe and throughout the USA. Martien runs the artisan dyeing studio Colourant Dyeworks, supplying hand-dyed fibres and fabrics to feltmakers and textile artists worldwide. She is the founder of the Victorian Feltmakers, the current editor of Felt (Australia’s national felting magazine) and the Convenor of Fibres West Inc. Alongside time in the studio, it makes for a busy and creative life! In 2013, Martien completed her PhD in Anthropology with an ethnographic thesis on the significance of women’s textile art practices in contemporary Australia. Her artwork is regularly included in international publications, including books and magazines. www.martienvanzuilen.com