Betty Burian Kirk

Lectures and workshops can be created or tailored to an organizations needs at request if sufficient time is available.

Felting

Lectures & Demonstrations

Making Felt A lecture and demonstration of how felt is made out of wool. The historic importance of wool and felt will be explored as well as the technical and artistic aspects of producing felt. Open to all ability levels, 1 to 2 hours.

Workshops

The Amazing Felt Hats This is a workshop where the students design and make their own cloche. The cloche is a close fitting hat, somewhat bell shaped, that was so popular during the roaring twenties. Recommended for those with felting experience. 4 to 6 hour workshop, material fee

Felted Geode This is a hands on mini workshop. Participants will use wool rovings or bats as well as colorful wool yarn to create a soft sculpture replica of a geode. Open to all levels, 2 to 3 hours, material fee

Introduction to 2 and 3 Dimensional Felting Each participant will make a two dimensional sample to learn the technique of felting and then a three dimensional piece that is seamless (can be an eyeglass case or small vessel) A brief overview of traditional felting and its history will be given as well as a discussion on what contemporary fiber artists are doing with felt. Open to all levels, 2 or 3 day workshop, material fee.

Amazing Felt Hats

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Information Requests

If you are interested in having Betty Burian Kirk present any of these classes to your organization, please contact her at Betty@bbkirk.com  List what topic you are interested in and dates for scheduling.

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